Fourth King of the

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Ochoman, J^rft Kvigbf(the Turks.
7l>i notable
even fo was Ufa be done in me, though in quite com, fore the Emperor his Nephew, by the name of the H
attfwtr of trary manner \ for he , being alive, I am dead, as moft religious and zealous Monk Anthony; which
the old overwhelmed with tht Waves of Calamity and Wee >. was :done (God writ) lor no good zeal to the*
Emptror,to and being loofe , I am hand , not my Hands and poor blind: man, but the better to colour the
the catching
qui/li'
Feet only, bat my Tongue alfo; wherewith unable matter with the common people, as if he weary
eeef the to do any thing elf*, I might yet est leaft ! bewail of the World, had voluntarily taken upon him
proud Pdmy
Woes and Wrongs unto the Air, and filth as hf that filly prafeflioni Nevcrthelels, within four
tritrcb. chance JJiould hear me, and unto this moft wofat days after, Synadtnut, underftanding them In
darknefs wherein I muff fox ever fit. But fbame every place td whiipcr among themfelves, and
hath clofed my month, my Brethren abhor me, and lecretly to mutter againft the hard dealing with
my Mothers Sow account me for a firanger -unto] the old Emperor, who had long reigned over
them, and the very light of mine Eyes it net with them, and £> by right was again to do, if his
him, my Friends and Neighbors flood up agatnfime, i Nephew fhould chance to die,; and.that the £c-
and all that faw me > Toughed me to jcorn •> my clefiafticaL Laws enforced no mam againft has
Fett bad almofi flipped, and my Footfiefs mete al- will to enter into religious Orders; he therewith
mofk overthrown > for I fretted againft the wicked, enraged, lent to him certain of his own Confede­
when I fa» the pace ef the Ungodly. The Emperors racy, to exact of him an Oath in writing, That
long ago gave great Priviledges unto the Church, he fhould never more after that time,- feek after
even tbrfe which it at this day injoyetb; and the the Empire, or yet accept of the lame if it were
Cburcbgave to them again Power, to choofe whom offered him, neither to iuhftituce any other 5 H
they would to be Patriarchs- . .Nnu concerning him I which if he refuted to do, to put him! in fear of
that fent yon-, I not only nominated him unto the his life; and the more to terrific him, let a guard
Patriarchjhip, but I my feif made choice of him, and of infolent barbarous Souldiers over him', for fear-
preferred him before many other right worthy •and of whom, he yielded to do whatsoever they re­
moft famous men., being bimfelf a man grown old quired; and 35b his Oath being fblemnly con-
in a more private life, never before preferred^ or ceived .into writing ( another man leading his
for any other thing famous > I will not fay bow hand, becaufe he was blind) he figned the fame
often I have holpen him and done him good. But with a red Crofs above ,and a black Crofs beneath,
now when be (hould again have relieved me tn my after the manner of the religious. Having thus
Calamity, he joynetb hands with mine Enema againft lived in darknefs dif graced, fhut up. in his Cham­
me, more cruet upon me than any other bloody-handed ber as a man forfaken of the World, with an
Executioner; not afhamed to ask me bow I would unlure guard ever to attend him, by the Ipace
be remembred in the Church> feigning bimfelf to be Qf two years, icfortuned that the tztb of Febm-
ignorant and firry for mine eft ate, much hie unto ary towards night r a day in the Greek-Church de-
the Egyptian Crocodile of Nile, which having killed dicaced to the Vigil of St. Anthony, whole name ^^
fame living Beaft, lieth upon the dead body and wajheth
the head thereof with her warm tears, which
fite afterwards devoureth together with the body. But-\
what to anfwet him unto this ins catching queftion,
I know not; for if I Jball fay. As an Emperoty i
Jhall forthwith be flam by .them which fin that
purpofe have me in held •>. but if I fay, As Anthony
the Monk, it Jhall be taken as the frank canfejfion
of mine efiate, by them, which have craftily- contrived
mine Overthrow, as if I bad net by compulfion,
but even of mine own free will put on this monaflical
habit, which God know eth wot never in my
thoughts* . " and lb againft his will in fuenee
pafltng over bis fbrrow, his mind with, the greatnels
of his Woes overcome; and as it were aftonifhed,
before the humors gathered into the
brain could be diffolvea into tears; for as the
Sun lending,, forth his moderate beams, draweth
unto it many exhalations and vapors, but
calling the fame forth more plentifully , doth
with his immoderate heat confume the feme
fceforcthey can be drawn up, £o the moderate
affections of the mind may have their griefs by
words and tears exprefled > but fuch as exceed all
mealure, and with their, vshemency as it were
overthrow the mind, commonly make men to
ftand ftill, mute and filent, ox if they lpeak at
all, to lpeak idly, and nothing to the purpofe, as
men befide themfelves, or in an extane., but for
the relblution of the queftion by the Bifhops demanded,
the devout Patriarch decreed, Thatinj
the Church-Prayers he fhould he remembred be­
f ^J]
they had given him) certain of his Friends that matron
were differed to have aeeefs unto him,, going as
their manner was, once; in three or four days
to vific him. (among whom was his Daughter, ' (
lomecime the Prince oft Strvia. his Wife, hue asthen
a Widow, and Nieephorus, Gregoras, Author of
thisHiftory) he entred with them, as with- hifc
Friends,into a familiar difeourfe of many matters,
whereitt he & deceived the rime, that it was pa Mr H
midnight before they perceived how the rime
paffecK. But the Cocks crowing, he brake off the
talk, and: bidding them fanewel, gave them leave
to depart, pleafantly faymg,Thafc to morrow they
would make an end of their difeourfe: who ad;
thereupon took their leave and departed, nofign
of any ficknefs as then appearing upon, hhn >
and after ehey were gone, called for meat and
did ox > the meat he ear, was certain fbelUfiih, for
it- was with chem a falting-day, and he had not
eat any thing; after which, when as he fhdulct
have drunk a cup of Wine, for the comforting
of his old ftomach, and digefting of that lb hard
meat, he drank cold water, as his manner was,
when he felt any inward heat, to drink the fame
immoderaly; which? hurtful manner of diet he
then uiing alio, began by and by to feel a great
pain in his ftomach, and lb prefendy after bocame
very fick, falling withall into a great loofe- H
nels of body, lb that in the lpace of one quarter
of an hour he was glad oftentimes to arile, and
to go unto an homely Houfe of Office in an*
inner-Chamber thereby todhebarge natures burden
; where after many Evacuations, fitting down
upon an homely bed fair by, and not able to recover
his.own Bed, having as then none to help*
him, there before it was day, died> after/he had
reigned 43 years. His death was by many
ftrange figns and accidents as it were foretold;
firft a great Eclipse of the Sun appealed, juft
fo many days before his death as faej-haid lived
years; and after thatj another EeUjpfe of the
Moon/, and with it an Earthquake, dies day:
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TbtTkrfp
Kingdom
founded bf
Othoman
i* Afia,
Mtfucb
time at
the Greek.
Emperors
ivire at
variance
kttrvixt
themfelvet
fn Europe
Profit
yielded
unto the
Xntkh
Othoman, FirHKing of the Turks.
before he died at night, being St. Anthony his even
whole name his Enemies had thruft upon him ;
at whj^rt|meaj^^er§eawitI)algn?atXempeift
riling* above the wonted Bounds, made divers
breaches' 1 in the Walls of the .City towards the
Sea; as if it had been Ibme violent Enemy, and
overflowed alio divers 1 Iouies in the =Gir3p? Many
Croffes I and, lunacies, were then alio from the tops
of Churches and other high Buildings over­
SSfrjS**
theCh ,ff; of the ^o valiant Cap-
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tarns A femur and Balabanxatck (as is before: dL
darey Jiavmg aowcontmoedthireceSyVre
the CotintJHL—^.ammtgg ^brought the gsm City ihtpjuch uuyiucn aiitreffl diifreg ^^^
and penury, that many of tjie Citizens and other
the poor Ghriiftiahs 'fleet Into the City, there died
of Famine. The reft now out of all hope ia b6
thrown i and with them a great Pillar, fometimc,
relieved by the Greek Emperor, not then able to
one of the Ornaments of the City* ffiarjdiug be­
relieve JuHifclf3caine to Compofirion with Orchanet
fore the Church, conlmbnly called the Church of
(for Othomm was pen lick of his old Difeaie the
Gout) covinantingVwith him, that .they might-in
the forty Martyrs; which being very high, and be­
"fiftfty. with lift andT?fiefry depart, and ib much
low burnt add worn away with time, had put of their Goods as they rhemfelves could carry >
many in fear as they palled by it, left it ihould knd lb yielded to him the City. Which condi­
halve fallen upon them > inibmuch that the Emtions (as molt write; were on the Turks behalf
peror upon a time palling that way, .was requeft- Well and faithfully performed; yet lbme there .
ed by ibme of the Nobility there preient, to ride be that report ttiem to have been in. moft part
farther off from it, for fear of filling upon him ; by Orchanet broken. Thus was Prufa, one of the
who fmiling at their vain fear, by chance, aniwer- greateft Cities Of that part of Afia, yielded unto
ed, O ivouldto God I might live Jo long as this Pillar the Turks, in the year of our Lord, 121*]. and was
will ftandj which now falling out according to afterwards by Ore banes made the Royal Seat of
his Speech gave many of them that had heard the Othoman Kings.
him 10 lay, occasion to marvel. His dead body
Was honourably buried in the Monaftery of Lihe, About this time, or very fhortly after, Othoman the death
which his Mother Theodora the Emprefs had not hi the eight and twentieth year of his Reign of Ocho-
long before new built, and his Oblequies there died, at Hie age of 69, in the year of our Lord, "'*"•
(after the manner of that time) yearly iblemnly ipS. and lie* buried atfVw/*, where his Tomb JJSJJ
kept by the ipace of nine days.
is yet at this day to be lean, in a certain Chappel prnra. '
Thus at length having palled through the
or an old Monaftery in the Cattle, Handing in
troubled State of the Greek Empire, during, the
the midftt of the City, covered wfth a Mantle!
of green Chamlet, and a little Tulipant or
long Reign of the old Emperor Ahdroriicw, the
Turkilh Hat (iiich as he ufed to wear) lying* over
conliderate Reader may eamy lee the caules of his head, differing from thole which the Turks
the declining and mine alio of this famous Em- now wear, eipecially die better fort of them, ib
pi|e ? and how that the Greek Emperors,troubled great that they can therewith icarcely come in
with their tempeftuous Affairs nearer home in at a door. There is alio another Monument of.
Europe, yea in the very Imperial City it lelf, and him I to be feen at Sugutai faft by the Sepulchre
in their own Palaces, were not at leifure to look o£*his Father ErtogruJz thjere made by his Sons in
over.the Strait into Afia, but glad to leave 'their [remembrance of him; whereof ibme have re-
Territories there unto the weak defence of them- ' ported him to have been there buried. Howbeit
ielves.' At which time, and even in the midit of the Turks themfelves generally iuppoie the true
the afbreiaid trouble, Othoman on the one fide, Monument wherein he is interred, to be at Prufat
with great induftry laid the Foundation of his as is afbreiaid. He was wile, politick, valiant,
Empire in Pbrygia and Bithynia, now the greateft and fortunate, but mil of diffimulation, and am­
terror of the World* and then did thole things bitious above meaiure 5 not ralh in his Attempts,'
which we now have of him written. The other and yet very reiblute; what he took in hand, he
Princes of the Turks alio, the Succeflbrs of Sultan I commonly brought to good effect.> to all men-
Afodin, at the lame time on the other fide, alongit he was bountiful and liberal, but eipecially to his
the River Meander encroaching on as fait; until Men of War, and the poor, whom he would
that at lair amongft them they had thruft the Greek many times feed and cloth with his own hands.'
Emperors quite out of Afia, and in fine became Of a poor Lordlhip he left a great Kingdom,
themfelves, together with the Greek Empire, a having iiibdued a great part of the teller Afia >
Prey unto the Othoman Kings, as in the proceis of and is worthily accounted the firft Founder of the
this Hiftory jhall more at large appear.
Turks great Kingdom and Empire. Of him, the
Turkilh Kings and Emperors ever fince have
But again to return unto Othoman himielf, who been called die Othoman Kings and Emperors, as
all this while (that old Andrmicus the Greek Em­ lineally of him deicended; and the Turks themperor
was thus troubled) had with his Son Orfelves Ofmanida, as the People or Subjects of
cbanes fought by all means on every fide to inlarge Othoman, or Of man, for ib he is of the Turks com­
his Kingdom» the Garrilbns by him left in the monly called.
two late built Caftles near unto the great City of |
R Note,
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134
NOte, That in the reckoning up of certain of the great Chriftian Princes and Prelates
of the fame time,- at the end of every of the Turkifh Kings and Emperors Lives, the
firft and greateft number following their Names, fheweth the Year of our Lord, wherein
fiich an Emperor, King, or Bifhop began to Reign, or Sit 5 and the number following, how
long he reigned or late 5 As for example, Andronicus the elder began to Reign in the Eeft,
in the Year of Grace, 1282. and reigned 43 years 5 and fo of the reft. Wherein we leek
not the exact Computation unto a month or day (as not much material to our Hiftory, or
any part of our purpole) but only the realbnable view of the great Princes of the forepafled
Times, as they lived in Ages together.
/•Andronicus Paleologus
\ the elder,
rOf tie Eafi j Andronicus Paleologus
V* C the younger,
(EmPerorsJ .
1 J V Albeitus of Aultna.
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Sm
The LIFE of
ORCHANES or URCHAN,
Second King of the Turks,
»2 5
AF T E R the death of Ottoman, his two
Sons, Ofcbanes ( whom the Turks call
Vrcbsn) and Aladin his Brother; having;
with great Solemnity enterred their
Father at Prufa, immediately fummoned a Parliament,
whereunto both the Brethren came accompanied
with the chief of their Nobility. This
Parliament was called especially, for theeftablifhing
of the Succeffion in this new Kingdom, and
lor the divifion of Ottomans Treafure and Goods,
betwixt them two, his Sons. But upon view
taken, there was no Mony, Plate, or jewels
found in the Kings Goffers, for that he had in
hi life time molt bountifully bellowed it upon
his men of War » fb that all die Wealth he left
onto diem his Sons, was, the honourable remembrance
of his Life for them to imitate, large Dominions
fortheir Poffeffions,ftore of ready Horfis
and Armor "fit for fervice j with great Herds
of Beafts and Cartel-for Houfhold Provinon.
Whereupon Orchanes demanded of his Brother
Atadin,vrhat order he thought was belt to be taken
wj thofe things by their Father £> left ? To
Whom Aladin anfwered, That it was moft requisite,
firft to eftablifh a'King in theirFathers Kingdom
i which like a good Shepherd might govern
and defend his Subjects, rule and maintain his men
of War, providing all tilings meet for defence of
his Kingdom> And that unto him of right belong*
ed all thefe other things by theirFather leit,as the
Patrimony of his Succeflbr,fbr the common good
and maintenance of hisEftate, As for mine own
part ("laid Aladin ) I claim no intereft therein,
you being my elder Brother, and fb unto me inftead
of a Father; by Whom alio you have been
thefe twoyears, as it were already put in pofleflion
of the Kingdom, all things being committed to
your Government, during the time of his late
»c This modefty of Aladin was greatly
commended of all the ancient Counfellors; by
means whereof, the Kingdom in all peaceable
manner descended to-Or chants. In regard of which
courtefie, Orchanes would gladly have made Ai/h
din his Brother Prefident ofhis Council 1 ; which
Honour he would m no wife accept, bat requefted
rather that he would give him the Lordfhip of Fodore
in Tekerices Country; which Orchanes frankly
granted. In which Loramip of Fodore, Aladin moft
part lived a private and quiet life, and afterwards
oa3t two Mahometan Churches, and an Abbey at
Aiqfc there yet at this day to be lean.
Some La one Historiographers otherwife' report
this beginning of Orchanes his Reign; as that Othuman
fhould have three Sons, and that Orchanes the
youngeft obtained the Kingdom by murthering
of h Brethren. A practice of late much
ufed amongft the-TurkifliPrinces, but not before
die time of Bajazxt die firft of that name, who
firft of the Turkilh Monarchs embrued his hands
with his Brothers Blood; where before, they ufed
all brocherly love one to another, as the moft probable
Ktiftories collecnjd out of the Turks own I
Chronicles affirm. - The Chriftian Pnncds and Captains, preiendy
ibt cltj
upon the death of Ottoman recovered die.City or of Nice
Nke, widi divers other Caftles and Forts, out of with di~
the hands of the Turks i as it commonly chanceth, •Utts otbtr
Caftlts ra>
that Dominions lately won with great peril, are \ctvtrtd
fbon again loft, the Conqueror dying before there from the
be a firm Government eftablifhed. Amongft other Tarty after
forts by the Chrifriahs repoflefled, the Caftle of tbt death
of Ocho-
TxiUfrichifeTy fituate upon the paflages of the Rimao.ver Sang/trim, moft grieved the Turks, for thereby
their paflage into that part of Bithynia was
much impeached. Wherefore Orchanes defirous
to recover this Caftle, difguifed himfelf with a
few other of his beft SoukSers", in the apparel of
Chriftian Merchants, and came to the Caftle,
craving leave to pais as Merchants V the Warders
of the Caftle verily fuppofing them by their Attire
to be Merchants, opened the Gates, and lee
them into the Caftle; who prefehtly drew their
Swords, flew the Warders, and fb by force pof*
felled the Caftle, to the great benefit of the Turks,
and the hurt of the poor Chriftians yet lfeft in the
Country of Bithynia. For they now having opened
a way over the River Sangariut, and as it were
broken down the ftrongeif defence of that fide
of the Greek Empire, at their pleafiire forraged
the Country in luch fort, as that the great City
of Nice (for want of Victuals to relieve fb great
a multitude as for fear of the Turks was fled out
of the Country into it) was brought to great ex*
treraity and want. For the relief whereof, and
for the repulfing again of the Turks, Andromcut
the young Emperor, who then commanded,
with fuch an Army as he was then able to raife,
palled himfelf in perfbn over the Strait of Con'
ftantincflr, into Afia; the greateft Strength ofhis
Army confifting in two tnoufand choice Horfemen;
the reft as well Horfe as Foot, being for the
moft part Artificers taken up in the City, men
alt< unacquainted with Arms (who in token
of their cowardife, and that they were more
mindful of Flight than of Fight, carried over
with them almoft as many long Boats and fiich
other finall Veffels, as they were men, to be ready
to receive them at fuch time as they mould flie)
or elfe ab/eft Rafcals, taken up here and there,
men of whom no great thing was to be expected,
and of all others moft unfit for fb great a Prince
( as was the Emperor) to commit the defence of
his Perfbn and Honour unto. "But Orchanes hearing,
of his coming, lent certain of his moft expert'
Captains, to forelay the ftrait paflages of the
Country whereby the Emperor was to pals ; following
alfbhimfelf after with his Array, of purpofe
to encounter the Emperor. Who in three
Bays march after his landing in Afia, being come
to Pbilolbrene, a'little Town in Bithynia, and un-'
derftanding that Orchanes having before taken the?
Straits;; layriotifar off encamped with- his Army;
he there at Fhilochrerie pitched his Tents,and ftaied
that night alfb. But the next morning, the Sunas
yet- feareely rifen, he feeing divers Companies
• of thcT\u*ks coming downg from the Mountains
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126
Qrchanes, Second King of the Turks.
faft by, put his Army into order of Battle, and fo at their pleafure, and the other hundred purfuing
fet forward to meet them; where to begin the. the difperfed Chriftians, like heartlefs men wan-
fight, the Turks Archers freely bellowed trfeir dn|g here and there, flew a great number of
piercing ihot amongft the Chriftians, frill keep­ them. The' Emperor himfelf feeing his Army thus
ing themfelves aloof off, fo to do the more harm. ( as it were by rhe hand of God ) overthrown and
Which the Bmpefpr Thffialgng?; affd flTppofine difperfcd; rook fhippirig alio, dted lOjretuTned to
that their keeping ipffto hayi proceeded or wieJ, Cmftantinofle. After whole departure, theJTurks
encouragedtherewlth; commanded certain loofc feifingiipon many^Sea Towns alongft
Companies difbrderly to march forward, and to
skirmiffi with them,'*-which his'"more e%>ert
Captains' ndt liking, would Mp. Spoil
whereof was given unto the Souldiers for a Prey,
and the Citizens all lead away iagQ.tniferable
Captivity and Thraldom. Whilft Ortbants was
thus bufied, his other Captains did with great
Courage and Succefs inlarge his Dominions OIL .
all fideSjdayly iiicroachjng upon their, weak Neighbors
the Chriftians. Cunger-Alfes OT\Q of his valiant
Captains, fubdued die Country of Mudrmt
or Modrint in Fbrygta ; and Holli in fapblagonia ;
appointing one Abdurta.chjrf§p a man of great V*Q
lour, to govern the Country. And at the ^aroe
time another of his old Captains called^ AxeecozAot , J^
brought Candor* in Papblagoma, and Enrtewi'tifo
Country near unto the Mountain Horrmmus, into >
the TurkifliSubjection ; placing Garrilbns. in ail- "
the Caftles and Forts wliich he had. won, of j
whom fome part of thofe Countries was after
called CozAa Iltm, that is to fay, Tit old mamt
Country. So that Owitfww his Kingdom gret® dayly
greater and greater, as well by the induitry of |os
Chieftains, as of himfelf.
About this tune it fortuned, the Captains Son
of Scamandria ( a Town not far from the ruines of
the

Orchanes, Second King of the Turfi. my
the ancient City ofTw, and about a days joumy
from the renowned Caftle of Abydt* to depart
out of this: World j unto iMiofe Funerals, being
kept in the Country, whiitt his woful Fattier the
Captain with his Fridnds-out of SeaniandriM retorted,
the old crafty Turk Accecozasa lying always
in waie, as a Fox for. his Prey, fuddcnly let upon
th heavy Chriftians, whereof he flew the molt
part, and took the reft Prifoners. Amongft whom
he alio took the Captain of ScamaiiUfio, with his
Caftle and Country; whom he afeertoards led
Prifoner unto the Caftle of Abydus, which is one
of the moft famous Caftles Atuate upon the Sea
Coaft of Afa, over againftiSe/*» in Eatdpt '1 where
the Sea of HtUeJpontus by the narrow Strait falleth
into the Sea of tAEgam; two Caftles much
renowned by reafbn or their nigh Situation, and
yet placed in divers parts of the World ; eternized
alfb by the ever living Wits of Poets, for the adventurous
paflage of Leanier over the fret of the
Sea, to his Love Here; which Caftles afce now
called DardmeUy. Accecozza having brought the
Captive Captain of Scamandria (lately a man of
great account in that Country) ib near as he
could unto the Caftle of Abydm, offered to fee
him at liberty if they would furrender their
Caftle, orherwife they mould fee him cruelly
flain before their Faces Thefe Turkifli threats
nothing moved them of Abydm, more than to
fay. That they might if they would cut off His
Head, feeth him and eat him, but the Caftle they
intended not to deliver. The lame Captain was
afterward by the commandment of Orchanes prefeted:
co the Emperor of Cmfiantinofh to be redeemed,
which he refuted; yet at the laft he was
ranfbmed by the Governor of Nicomedta, and
again fee at liberty. Accecozza of long time held
the Caftle of Scamandria) yet, ib continually molefted
wfeh the Garrifbn of Abydus, and men of
War fent from Conftantinople, that he with his Followers
were glad for the moft part
Abydm
befiigtd by\
the THTI^S.
1 to live on
horfeback, to be alwaies in more readiriefs againft
die attempt of their Enemies. The Captain of
the Caftle of Abydus had at that time a-fair young
Gentlewoman to his Daughter, who^as^neiaid)
chafieed" to dream ( what (he had happily waking
for the moft part wifhed) That being fallen 1 up, delivered the fame to the General Jiccecozzli.
Wnerefn after ihe had dSfcovered Iter paftloHafe
affection, ftie promifed to deliver the Caftfe Mlcb
Abdurachmans Power, if the Turks- would raife
their Siege, sad AMura'chtmH hfefelf • with- fbrhfe
few would fecredy refiifn to the Caftle in the
'dead time of the night, and then follow her direction.
Accecozza like an old Fox, which isfejdbm
taken in the trap", gave (mall credit to tfiofe
loving lineSjfor fear of Treafbnjyet forfevmueKias
you are the man ((aid he to Abduracham) whom
(he upon fpecial liking hath ma'dfe- choice of for
che purpdfe, will you adventure $fl» $erfcfi.'?
And he armed with a- manty douragfe, a furer
defence than any Armor of prob§. incited alfb
with hope of Honour, Riches, and B@a'atta all
Worthy prizes for Martial minds'; (aid he would
undertake the Acchieventent of t!hac "E&plbit, if Ic
were his pleafure fb. Whereupon Avceeozza, be*
caufe nothing fhould be (ufpe&ed by His- fiiddeii
departure, gave a (harp AAauk to the Caftle; as
if he would have taken it by fine force, yet in the
end retired, and prefently brake tip-his Siege, as
deipairing of the winning thereof .The Defendants
of the Caftle' thinking themfelves deh>
vered of a great danger, greatly rejoyced; and
as in the like cafe it oftentimes fallech out, in
their great jollity furefiarged themfelves that night
with excefs both of Heat and Drihlfc. But A9f '
duraebman at the tinie in the Letter appointed, put
himfelf upon the way with certain felect Soul
into
a deep myrie Ditch*, out of which (he could by
no means help her felf, a lufty young Gallant
coming by, did not only Help her out, but alio
in friendly made her clean, and afterwards apparelled
her in rich and coftly Attire. The danger
of this dream much troubled the tender Gentlewoman,
but the image of the young Gentleman
was fb well phantafied in her brain, that
waking, (he thought (he (till (aw him, ana deeping
longed fore for what (he few not. Thus wnilft
this young Gentlewoman with great devotion
entertained this imaginary man, the old grayheaded
Turk Accecozza came, and with a (hong
Company befieged her Fathers Caftle of Abydus.
©bring which Siege, this Gentlewoman oftentimes
went up into the high Turret of the Caftle,
from whence (he might at pleafure fee the Martial
Deeds on both (ides, and take full view of all
the Enemies Camp. But fee the chance, as Abdurachman
with great Courage and no lefi Bravery,
approached near to the Siege of the Caftle,
(he thought (upon the firft fight of him) that he
was che very man whom (he had before dreamed
of, and whofe Idea was in her Heart fo deeply
imprinted; wherefore (He fully rcfblved to perform
what ffie had without witnefs with her felf
determined. And waiting another time" when
Abdurachman approached' the Caftle, (he caftj
down oo* his Feet a Letter written hi Greek, and'
made faft unto- a> Stone; which Letter he taking
1 .. •
diers, and about Midnight came to the appointed
place of the Caftle, where che young Gentlewoman
was attending his coming 'j and he by
her means was conveyed into the Caftle, and fo
by her directed -to the Porters Lodge '•> where he
(tew the Porter being faft afleep, and opening the
Gates, lee in his Followers; which went directly
to the Captains Lodging, and there took him
Prilbner, being before- their coming overtaken
with Wine,and faft! afleep. Thus'was che Caftlerof
Abydus furprifed by the Turks, from' whence chey
had a fair profped: out of A fin ihco Europe. The
Captain with his fair Daughter, and thegreateft
part of che rich Spoil of che Caftle; was delivered
to Abdurachman, co be prefented co Orchattes
ac his Court, chen lying at Neapolis. Who
wonderful glad of fb good* news, gave the fair . •"'
Gentlewoman ,'with the greateff part of che Prey
co Abdurachman. The Poftericy of chis man (as
chey fay) yet remains among che Turks. Amongft
others of the Warlike Captains there was alfb one
\Cafaracbman, whofe name was fb dreadful to them"
ofConftantinople, that when their Children cried',
they would cerrifie them co make chem hold their
peace, by fayjng, Cararacbman comes. Not long
after, che two valiant aforenamed worthy Captains,
Cmger-Alpes and Accecoz&a died. After
whofe death, Orchanes made his Sons, Solyman and
Antmatb, Lords and Governors of thofe Countries
and Provinces.. And intending ( by che perfwa-
(10 of Abdurachman) co befiege rlfeortcdia, he
levied a great Army, wherewith he took divers
fmall Caftles and Forts as he marched' cowards
che Cicy. Itficottied/a was ac chat time governed by
an honourable Lady, Kinfwoman unto Andronkus
the Emperor of Conftamlnople \ but (he feeing her
City befieged by the Turks, and doubting her
own Forces nor to be able to hold out the Siege,
by artrufty Mesflfenger offered to yield the City NJ(,om

128 Orchanes, Second King oftfc Tiirkk
Solyman Governor of the ferae The Churches
of the Chriftians he converted unto Turkifh Mef
chkas or Temples- The greateft Church ( being
of wonderful Beauty) he converted into a Col-
Jedge or School, for the learned ?rpfeffors and
chants wns*fb greatly offcnded.that he threarncd to
deftroy the whole Country with Fire and Sword,
if they did not by a day prefixed, generally fob? rt
mit themfclves to his mercy., The Peoples .terrified Jy JJJ
with this proclamation of ib great a Prince alrea* r«{ina
JStudentsof Mahomet*. Law, which is yet called in dy in Anjtsj yielded themfclves unto his Subjc&ii jitldtdiw
JSHcomediffj Orchanes his School or Colledge. And on. The Kings Son alio that.was fled into Pirn* " °"**-
.becaufe; die Country near unto Nicomedia, lying mnm, upon reafbnable conditions yielded liimlelf
upon the Sea, was ever in danger to be ipoiled
by the Qallies of Cow/2antincpie, he placed in thole
/Countries divers of his rnpft. experienced .Soul-J
diers to defend the lame, appointing to every of
them Poffeffions and Penfipns, according to their
degrees and merit. After this Orchanes by the
couniel of his Brother Aladin, commanded all
his men of War to wear white Gaps, thereby to
oe known.from others, which .commonly wore
red. Such manner of Caps tkc-Jani&aries ufe at
this day. The Turks alio in Orchanes Reign, and
long time after, uied not to cut or fhave their
Beards, but did wear them long; ib that if the
King would dilgracc any man, he would in 'his
diipleafure .command his Beard to be cut or (haven.
The manner of cutting and (having their
Beards which they now ufe, they learned of the
Italians; of whom they have alio borrowed many
other faihions, not only differing, but quite
contrary to their ancient Manners and Cuftpms.
Ofchancs Orchanes about this time removed his Court to
rtmovttb Nice, where he lay a long time after. There he
bis Court built a iumptuous Church, appointing a Preacher
to Nice. to preach to the People every Friday;, he ercCted
in Nice alio two Eiir Abbies, in the one of which,
he with his own hands lerved the Strangers and
Poor the firft dinner. He was the firft that builded
Abbies orMonafteries among the Turks» whole J
example moil of his Succeffors have imitated, and]
is amongit them uied unto this day.
The Government of Nseomedia Orchanes. committed
to his eldeft-Son Solyman (as is before faidj)
a Prince of great towardlineis * giving him in
great charge to have a vigilant Eye to the Towns
of Taraxa, Govinuca and Mudimtc, which were
nigh unto N'rcomedia, yet in pofieffion of the
Chriftians; all which Towns, with the Countries
adjoyning, Solyman in (hart time got without
force, by compofirion. This Solyman was of a
Princely Diipoiition, fb tempering juftice with
Clemency in his Government, that many Chriitians
allured with his Vertues, became of his Religion,
and gladly put thcmfelves under his Subjection*
the politick Laws of the Country he neither
abrogated nor changed, but maintained as
they had been of ancient time accuttomed,where-1
by he greatly won the Hearts of the People. Amiirath
his younger Son, Orchanes made Lord and
Governor of Prufa, after he had* removed his
Court to Nice. And the Caltle of Cbara-c hi far, with
the Seigniory thereto belonging, he gave to his
Coufin Artemure, the Son of his Uncle Jundas.
Orchanes
There was at this time in Orchanes Court a
Noble young Gentleman called Turfon-Beg,xho Son
invadctb
tbt Country of Dharafis King of Cbarafid; by whofe periwa-
4f Caiaii- fion Orchanes in Peribn liimfelf with a itrong
Army, made an Expedition into that Country ;
for that his Fathers Subjects after the death of the
Xing bis Father, denied their Obedience to. his
elder Brother, wifhing rather to have Turfon for
their Soyeraign. In whole behalf Orchanes taking
that journy, furpriied by the way many Caftles
and Towns' to his own ufe. Orchanes was no fconer
entred the Country of Charafia, but lurfons elder
Brother fled to Pergamum, whither the Turks
fliordy puriued him; where Turfon deurous to
ipeak with his Brother, unwarily approaching the
City, was wounded with an Arrow fhot from the
Walls, and there flain. With whole death Or-
nc
unto Orchanes, who lent him to Prufa, where ^fte?
he had there lived two years.he died of the Plaguei
after whole death. Orchanes made his Son Solfman
Prince of Carafina, Neither is this taking, in of -the
Country of Carafin a to be accounted a fmall Conqueft'
one of the greateft Houiesof the Turks the
Succeflbrs of the Icontan Sultan Aladin, now there- .
by taking end, and their Dominions (:which were
not fmall, as containing almoft Lydia, with ibmc
good parts of Adijtat Irons, and the leffer Ehtygia}
now united unto the Othoman Kingdom. Orchanes
upon his return,for the good fucceis of this journy.
built a. Church and Monaftery at Prufa, placing
therein religious men, with all diligence fought
for out of all his Kingdom; of which Religious*
the Turks write many Fables, better worth the R
imiluig at, than the ierious reporting. Hitherto
the Kingdom of Othoman and Orchanes his Son,
was contained within the bounds of the letter Afia^
which the Turks call Anatolia.
Now it rcfteth to be (hewed, upon .what occafion
Orchanes or rather his Son Solyman Bajjk, affif
were fatally, with a frnall power firft palled over
HsslUffontm into Europe; where they and their SuccefTorshaye
by little andlitde ib enlarged their Dominions,
that they hayenow long ago quite overthrown
the Gre««i» Empire, with many other great
Kingdoms, and arc at this preient a terror to all
Chriitjan Princes bordering upon them; to the
perpetual Infamy of the Greeks, who for want of
couragq,andrbufied with civil difcord,never fought
in time to impeach their greatnefs. L look
Orchanes} having now fo augmented his Kingdom,
that lje might from many parts thereof out
of Afia take view of the pleafant borders of Europe,
from whence he was excluded only by the narrow
Sea o£ Hellefpontus; and continually incited with
the infatiablc and reftlefs defire of Sovereignty,
began to devife how he might poflibly pais that
itrait Sea, and let foot in Europe another part of
the World. Which his conceit one day be imparted
to his Son Solyman» who prefenrly aniwercd
his Father, That if it would pleale him to give
him leave, he would not doubt to pals the btrait
of Hellefpontus \ and in time to plant the Mahometan
Religion in thole Countries of Europe pofleifed by
the Chriftians. Which anfwer of Solyman much
pleafed his Father, who gave him leave to depart
into his Country, and in that matter to proceed
further, as he thought belt, and asoccanon mould
belt ierye. Solyman taking leave of his Father,
took his journey into Car afin a, where riding up
and down the Country, as it had been for his
pleafure only, he made his way to the place where
it is thought the famous City of Troy ibmetime
flood; where yet ( as the Turks and feme others
lay ; arc to be feen the wonderful ruins of that
unfortunate City by the Sea fide. In this place
\ Solyman flood flill a great while, as it were in a
fludy, forecafting ( as it teemed ) ibme great matter,
without fpeaking one word to any of his Followers.
When one of his Chieftains called E&es-
Begy to put him out of his deep thoughts, boldly,
laid unto him, My Lord and great Sovereign,
what ftrange thing is this, that you are io deeply
drowned in thefe your melancholy thoughts i undoubtedly
it is ibme great matter that you arc -1
fludying upon. Truth it is, (laid Stlyptan} for I
was chinking how it were! poffibleto pais over this

Orchanes, Second King of the Turks.
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9
Sea of Hellefpontus into" the borders of Europe, and to
take view or that Country, and lb to return unyet
remainerb, as in the procefs of this Hiftory
• discovered. If this be the matter, .(laid Ezes-Beg
(hall (if God will) at large appear.joyning
unto him one Fazil-Beg, a man of no leis About two miles from Zembenic in Cberfonefus Tie caflli
valour than himlelf) we two will by the power was another Caltle called Malto, or more truly "f M«diof
God perform unto you this Enterprise. Then Madititt'i which Solyman allb took i fb that now SI'/JLJ
was Solyman defirous to know of them, about what he had gotten twoCaftlesirt E*»«p*,both which he nrh.
place they would pals over; which they well ltrongly manned. After which time, the Turks in
knowing the Sea coalt, (hewed him not far off. great numbers came out of Afia into Europe over
Wherefore Solyman giving them leave, they de­ that narrow Strait of HeUtfomtus, to dwell in
parted ; and ihortly after making a little Boat, or Cberfonefus', and Solyman initead of them, to make
rather as feme liippole aRafte, palled over Hel- room for his Turks, lent Chriftians out of Europe
lejpmtus by night, and arrived in Europe fide, near to be placed ambngft the Turks in Afia. The re-
unto a Caftle of the Turks,called Ztmenic or Zemport of this corning over of the Turks into Cherbenic,
but of the Greeks CoiriJoca/rrcn, that is to lay, fcnefus, and of the taking of the Caftle of Zcm-
Tie Hogs Caftle, not far from Seltus > where going benicj carried in polt to Confiantincple, was fuffici-
aihore, they took Prilbner a Greek in a Vineyard ent to have ltirred up any provident or careful
near unto the Caftle, whom they rinding to be a men, prefently to have taken up Arms for the re­
good (enfible Fellow, without delay put nim into covery of the loit Caftle, and the driving out?
their Boat or Raffe, and returning rack again, again of the barbarous Enemies out of Europe, be- [£V
prelentcd him to Solyman. Thi6 Chriltian Cap­ fore they had gathered any greater Strength, or
tive Solyman entertained courteoufly, giving him letled themlelves in thole places; but liich was the?
great Gifts, and rich Apparel, to difcover unto ca relets negligence and great iecurity of the proud
him the Eirate of his Country; and in finejearned Greeks, that inftead thereof) they to extenuate the
of him a means to take the Caftle Zembenic,^ be­ greatnels of the loli, commonly laid, That there
fore the Chriftians mould thereof be awar. For was but a Hogfty loft; alluding unto the name
atchievemcnt whereof, certain Boats were speedi­ of the Caftle; and vainly ( as laid a grave Father
ly made ready by Solymam Commandment, and he of their own) jetting at that was not to be
with eighty choien Souldiers eaiily pafled over jelted at, and laughing at that was not to be
in them by night, with their Chriltian Guide the laughed at, but lamented' for, as in few years it
Greek » for in that place, the Strait betwixt Afia proved ; their foolilh laughter being not without
and Europe is not paft an Italian mile over.' This good caule converted- into molt bitter tears.
Guide brought Solyman dire&ly to the aforelaid Solymans Strength lb (till increafing by the dayIy CalllpoJia *
Caftle, where was a great Dunghil, lb high, that coming over of the Turks, he proceeded further t*k
from the top thereof Solyman with his Souldiers
eaiily got into the Caftle, which they won without
any great refiftance; for it was then Harveft
time, and molt part of the People were in the
Vineyards, or treading out of their Corn all night,
as the ufe of thole Countries is. Solyman thus poP
felled ©Jhrhe Caftle of Zembenic, ufed no extremity
againft the Inhabitants thereof, leeking rather
by courtefie to gain their goodwills, than by
extremity to force them to his; yet fiich Gentlemen
as he took, with ibme others alio of the better
Ibrt, he lent by (hipping into Afia, and by the
fame Ships returned Souldiers as fait as he could
into Europe; fo that he had in one day two hundred
Souldiers more brought over unto him; and
manning fuch final! Veffels as he had left about
the Caftle, lent Ex*es-Beg alangft the coaft on Europe
fide, to burn fuch (hipping* or Veflels as he
could find, left the Chriftians mould by them hinder
hispaflage upon the Strait of Hellefpontus. So
in a few days Solyman had transported into Europe
two thouland good Souldiers of the Turks, whom
he lb governed, that they did not in any violent
ibrt injury to the vulgar Chriftians, bv realbn
whereof the common People began to like rear
fbnable well of the Turks, and to converle with
them without tear. This was the firft coming
over of the Turks into Europe, withpurpole there
to conquer and inhabit, under the fortune of the
Otboman Kings. For albeit that ibme of that Nation
had at lundry times before come over, as men
fcefpog after Spoil, or otherwile lent for, yea ifbiiaetimes
by the Greek Emperors themlelves; yet never
ftaid they long, but having done what they
came for,or elle loft themlelves,returned back again
into Afia»until that now conducted by Solymant&nd
pollened of the little Caftle of Zembenic (asis
aforelaid ) they there took fo faft footing, as that
they and their Poiterity after them, were never
thence to be ilnce chat time removed» but ftill
more and more encroaching upon the Chriitians,
Jiave unto their Afion Kingdom joyned a! great
tn by
to ipbiltlie' Country of Cberfcnefufys\mo[\ as far as tb ' 'fakf-
Catiipolttydiftant __3&tt",diitant from froigi the Caftle Zembenic about twd
and twenty miles; after which plealanr City the*
proud Turk began now to long. Which the Governor
thereof perceiving by the Turks continual
incroaching upon him, railed what power he was
pan of Europe alto, to the terror of the reft that
1
able to make, and fo went out againft them; all
the reft of the Greeks in the mean time lying (till*
as if they had been afleep, or that the matter had
not concerned them; but meeting the Turks, ho
was by them ( after a great conflict) overthrown/
and for lifeguard of his life glad to (lie into his
City; after whom the Turks following, lpoiled
the Country round about,- and in their return, by
plain force took the City, together with the Caltle
allb ; which happened in the year of our Lord
13 58. Where the madnefi of the Greeks was again
more than before to be wondred at > for the news
of the lots of Callipolis being brought to Confiantmople,
the People there made finall account thereof,
although it was indeed a right great lols,and much
concerned the State > but to extenuate the matter,
when they had any talk thereof, in jetting wile
commonly laid, That the Turks had but taken
from them a Pottle of Wine. But by taking of
fuch Hogfties and Pottles of Wine (as they termed
it.) the Turks in*a few years after had gone fo
far in Tbracia, that Amuratb ( the lame Solymans
Nephew which now took from the Greeks the City
of CaUipolis) even in the Heart as it were of the
Greek Empire, placed his Royal Seat at Hadrianopie»
and immediately after turn, Bajazet his Son
(having fiibducd all the:Country even to the
Walls of ConfianRinople ) for certain years laid hard
Siege, unto the Imperial City it felt* > and had no
doubt then carried it, had not the great expedition
or the mighty Tartar Prince Tamerlane ( unto Bw
'•jdz.ee. fatal) in the mean time happened; where*
by (God fo appointing it) the proiperous liicceedings
of the Turks were for a (pace well Ifaicd,
that'they mould not before the time by him prefixed,
devour the Reliques of the Greek Empire.
And it\were to be wimed, that the Chriftians of
our tithe alfo (by their example warned ; would
J> at

1JO
Orchanes, Second King of the Turks.
it length awake out of their dead fleep; who of
late hath loft unto the fame Enemy, not the Cattle
Of Zembenic, or the City of Callipolu, bat whole
danger of the Turks laid in ambufh; .where his
men were all {lain, and himlelf taken and brought
before his own Caftle, and had there his head pre* .
Kingdoms* as Hungary and Cyprus, and are ftill lently ftruck oft*; whereupon the Caftle was forth­
fair in the way; I toy no more tor grief, and forewith by them that were therein (having now loft
boding of evil fortune. But again to our purpofe; their Captain ) furrendred, and Cbaxa Hi-Beg, a
Solyman having made this prosperous entrance into valiant Captain of the Turks, placed therein;
Europe, and there got ftrong footing, by fpeedy who from thence never ceafeuto trouble the
Meilengers certified his Father what he had done, Country, even to the Walls of Dydimoticbum, as
and that it was expedient for him with all Ipeed did Solyman alio out of CaUipolis.
to fend unto him a great liipply of men of War, as Thus in the ipace of one year the Turks got
well for the lure defence and keeping of thole ftrong footing in Europe, pofleffing divers Caftles
Caftles and Forts by him already gotten, as for the and Towns , with the Country about them,
fiiBther invasion of the Country. This menage which Solyman gave in reward unto his Captains
was wonderful welcome waoOrcbatnsjnd where­ and Souldiers, as appeareth by the Graves and
as many Families of the Sarafms at that preient Tombs of Ezes-Beg and Fazjl-Beg, the two which
were come into the Country csi Carafina, to poflefi firft came over into Europe, which are there yet
the Dwellings and Places of them, which in hope well known.
to better their Eftate were before gon over into About this time it fortuned, that as this Martial the dutb
Europe; all the&Sara/ms he commanded to pais over Prince Solyman was for his difport hawking in the ofSoiyinto
Europe likewife; which they did accordingly, Fields of Bolayre on Europe fide, galloping in to his
lea ting themfelves for a time in the Country near
to CalUpolv. In the mean time Solyman omitted no
opportunity to enter further into the Country,
winning fmall Forts and Holds, and ftill peopling
the lame with his Turks. And on the other fide,
they of Carafina paffed over into Europe, placing
themfelves as it were in a new World. For which
cauie, and for the great defire they had to extend
the Turkifh Dominion and Religion, they refilled
no pains of War •> & that all things at that time
profpered with the Turks, and went backward
with the Chiifbans.
In the time of theie Wars,not far from CaUipolis
was a little Caftle called Congere,the Captain whereof
was by a Greek name called Colo Johannes, a
valiant and painful man; this Captain continually
molefted and troubled the Turks which lay on that
fide of CaUipolis, under the leading o( Ez.es-Beg, many
of whom he flew and took Pr3bners,as he could
find them at any advantage. Solyman much angred
herewith, by crafty and fecret Elpials learned a
certain time when he was gone out of his Caftle
to do fome exploit upon the Turks. Whereupon he
prelenrly io belet the Caftle with Souldiers, that
he could by no means return thither, but he muft
firft fall into their hands > and for more affurance
placed .others alio in by-ways, left he Ihould by
any ways elcape. The Captain ignorant of all this,
profecuted his enterprife,and having taken a Turk
Prilbner, thinking to return to his Caftle, was
nattily purlued by Faz.il-Beg •> for which caule
making the more hafte, he uiddenly fell into the
anBan »
Falcon, was with his Horle overthrown ma ditch, j,,-, ,/"»*
of which Fall he being lore bruifed, fliortly after SQM.
died. The news of his death being brought to Or-lb dietb
ebanes his Father, gave unto him (then being lick) *f ° rch ?"
juft occafion of great lbrrow; €0 that within two ncs *
months after he died alio, being fourfcore years
old, when he hadraigned thereof 31 years; and
died about the year of our Lord 1559. Some
FJHftories report otherwife, both of his death, and
of the time wherein he lived; as that he Ihould be
flam in a Battel againft the Tartars» or as others
write, with an Arrow at the Siege of Prufa, in
the year of our Lord 1249, But Joannes Leunclatrius
in his Hiftory colleded out of the Turks
own Chronicles ( whom we follow as mod probable)
reporteth it as before.
This Orchanes was wife,courteous,and bountiful,
more ingenious than his Father in deviling wavlike
Engins. He built divers Princely Churches,
AJbbies,Colledges,and Cells, and was in his lupeiv
ititious Religion very zealous; in & much that
he appointed Penlions to all liich as could in the
Church lay the Book of Mahomets Law by heart;
and appointed competent maintenance for all
Judges of his Courts, became they Ihould not
take any thing in reward of his Subjects, for the
perverting^ of Juftice. He greatly inlarged his
Kingdom in Afia, and not content to be inclofed
with the Seas of Euxinum and HeUtfpontus, let
faft footing in Europe, which lome attribute to his
Son Amur at h. He was to the Chriftians always a
moft mortal Enemy, and £> died.
FINIS.
fAndronicus Paleologus
•Of the E*fi< the younger.
^ I John Paleologus.
f'Emperors.
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Joins et intenlus fines extender e ILe-frni;
£uropam penetrans, oAoia qtuxoue rapit.
^dUoruti trepidant, nirnia formidine TAraces :
•th medio ouorusn, J"ceptra, sufterfa. A? cat.
Sine ^sflasos premit i/Ae fires, mis'erusna -Dynasten
Ctyroiri in Cam/tiff, oirruit atoue necat.
Sednan. e^maa /icit s ceteris tarn, dim ire/uptas.
^/f Servo casus, condidit e'nse /erozc ,
Sterne nen> tAouoAts resolves upon,
H WaA etrnves divided Greece to overrun ;
*^and rvAo//y Sent to 'en/aro-e Ais narrow Aoiends,
. JEurove invades, ana a A* Ae meets con&u+zds :
TAe £00 too timorous TAracians stand, asnazjd,
To /tndA is Scepter in tAeir Aor&e&Zr frAacbA.
TAe'/terce- Bu/aarians, did Ais ne.ru one A?,
^dnd at Ais /eer tAe-ir nspAAe -Despot fcAA:
^t last tAe. ponjzard of"a* &£t/e Jla&e '
TaiefAt A£*n,,nrAat SAortlit* eA/tleasteres Turants Aave]

I . »
The LIFE of
AMURlATH,
I The Firft of that NAME,
Thirdf King of thlitTurks,
And the great AUGMEN |Vo auuibf their Kingdom^
:i'"©l-. .
A
Muratb the younger Son of Orcbanet upai* the^w$jr, and • fought with
Amurath
jhmtditb Succeeded his Father in th^Turkifh
bit Fathtn Kingdom , his -elder Brother Solpnan
©i It's
being dead a litclepbefore his Father.
in tbi >-. ["his Amurath with greater zeal than
Iktlfifb
HJflgdoin.
any one of the Turkifh Kings, advanced the
Mahometan Religion, and had therein wonderfill
Success. In the beginning of his Reign, he
gathered a great Army out of all parts (©this
Kingdom, to Prufa > purpofing to pais, over Jjfo/lejpontus,
to invade the Chriftians in Tbracia. But
underftanding, that the other Mahometan Princes
in Afia had combined themfclves againft
nira, he was thereby inforced to leave hisribrmer
determination for Europe, and to torn his/Forces
upon them. In which Wars he mightily prevailed
again!! them, and returned with Victory
to Prufa. But having lb lubdued thole Confederate
Princes, he the next year after profecuted Jus
Wars before intended againft the Chriftians'in
Europe. Fbr which purpoie having levied a strong
Army in Afi»i he patted oVeu to Callipoks, za*
companied with his Tutor, whom die Tucks call
Lala Scbabm; whole grave advice and counfel he
moft followed in all his weighty. Affairs, being
at that 'time one of his chief Counlellors. from
CaBipolis he marched to the Caftle of Benutum,
which was by compofkion yielded unto him.
From thence he went to IxMruhu, where the
Chrilfians gave hioi a'fharp encounter) but in
the end-he won the Town, and carried away
the Vi&ory. And fi proceeding farther, took
divers other fmall Caftles and Towns in that
part of Tbraeia, which cf the ancient Roman
Colonies .was then called Romania, and now of
the Turks -Rumilia, namely Me fine, Burgos, and
others* whereof fome he utterly raledj and into
the reft put ftrong Garrilbns. At this time alio,
G&afcllbeg and Eurendfes, two of his moft valiant
Captains, took certain Forts (landing upon
the River Merit**, in ancient time called Hebrm;
whereby they much troubled the Inhabitants of
the Country thereabouts. Wherewith t die Captain
of Dtdjtnutichum offended, gathered his Souldiers
together,, intending to have intercepted the
great Captain Chafi-Ilfag > in which Attempt he
loft moll of his Followers, and was himleif there
Dklymoticham
taken Prifbner. For whole Ranfbm and certain
yitldtd other Conditions, the .Citizens of Didjmotid&m
un thi yielded the City unto the Turks.
Tat is.
Shordy after, Amurath lent his Tutor. Lala
Schabin to befiege Hadrianofle, now called) Adrta-
\mple, but in ancient time Orejtias \. oi whole
coming, the Chriftians hearing, eucountred .him
1 - him a great
battel, wherein many were on both fides loft;
but in the end rite 'Chriftians being"put to the
worft, retired again to the City. Of this Vi&o-"
ryScbabin tfeit News' unro Amuratb,with certain;
ojtdie hdadd ofithvfldfo Ghriftians; who thereupon
fending CA^afldJJEtomro/ei-bbfore, he himfelf
widiia great Armji followed-after'to the
Siege of Hadrianople "•> of whole : coitiing•, the*
GoveVndr tof tiodriatiople (inderftandihg,- fled- fecreriyourof
the Ghly.'^JfligTit-to A

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at Didymoticbum, where they carried ftones, morter,
and fiich like things ^ ever (hewing rhem-
I (elves very diligent in their work; Chaps with
vigilant eye (till awaiting what might beftfenfe
his turn for the furprifing of the City. When
night was come, the Turkifli Workmen and
labourers after their accuftomed' maimer, and
as they were by the Governor appointed, went
out of the City into the Suburbs to their EMgings;
from whence. C%?.f iecretly departing in the night,
M came to Amurath and (hewed him how one of the
gates of the City might upon-eheiudden be taken, j
if it would pleate mm to place a fufucient num.* r
ber of Turks in ambufh near unto the City, to
joyn with him and the other Turkifli Labourers
Atnurath, Third King of the Turks.
of the Gates of Hadrianople unto him at a certain
appointed time, if he would againft the lame time
be ready to tend him pretent Succors. All things
befog agfefd upon, Cbafis at the appointed time
dame iti the dawning of the day to one of the
Gates of the City, accompanied but with ten of '
his Followei s, as if he-would Save gojt forth to B
hunt, as Me had before accuftomed. jra (b (bon
as the Gates we're ope»ed\ ,4ief with die Whcr ten
well appointed for thd purpoie> furioully.iet upon
the Warders, whom they (lew * and being aided H
when occalion fhpuld ferve. Which being revived
upon, Amurath lent him back again to put finis
his device in execution: So 'Gbafis returning to'
Didpnoticbum, brake the matter to (b many of
the Afian Workmen as he thought convenient,
fully inftru&ing them what was tp osTdotfe. The
next day (according to his appointment) the
Chriftians being then at dinner, thefe Turkifli
Workmen and Labourers" fell at words among
themfelves, and from words to fained blows; in
H which counterfeit Brawl and Tumult, they Suddenly
ran to one of the Gates of the City fall by
(as was before appointed) and there laying hands
upon the Warders Weapons, as if if had been to
defend themielves againft their Fellows, fuddenly
let upon thole Warders, being- in number but few,
and then at dinner allb,and fo prctently flcw theni;
which done, they opened the Gate of the City,
and let in the other Turks which lay,«urwait'not
far off; who with great celerity entring the City,
pretently took the lame, and there put fche chiefeft
of their Citizens to the Sword, (paring die reft of
the meaner (bit.
The City of Rhodefttm (of the old Writettcalled
flumfir- R by the reft,of die Fugitive Turks (which with all
(peed! By appointment; before made, reforted unto
them) they pollened the Gate > until a great power
of the Turks, whom Amttratjtths night before liad
placed in ambufti near unto the City, having
knowledge whit #asxloiie,ahd hea ring tjfc alarm,
(peedify came *on, attd by that Qaterhtred' the
City; where was fought a cruel fight all that day,
even from morning until night. But in the end the
[Turks' pr£raili&g,-tDok< she Gity, wmeiithey have
ever flnce pofleffed unto'this day.
Thele great Cities of Tbracia thus taken, or fbdrfiao.
otherwite as aforelajd (for that 1 leave foi. the Pj? '*'
Reader to think of as he pleafetli) Amur at bap- BjJJj!!
pointed the Seat of his Royal Court at Badmnopfe, && ,g$
as a place of all others ruoft fit for the further in«a? /« Europe
lion of die Chriftians, and inlarging of his Kingdom
in Eur oft > from whence (uch a world of Mb?
chiefs and Woe hath fince that time overflowed a. -J
great part of Chriftcndom, and drowned (b many
goodly Kingdoms in Eur ape, as that both they,
and moft part of the reft that yet remain (daily
in dread of J ike deftruetion) might juftly accurfe
and deteit the woful careleihels and degenerate
cowardife of die Greeks,were not they themielves
together with the glory of their Church and Em.
pice, (wallowed up in the fame gulf of Calamity
and, Woe, and (b become of all others moft mise­
hcedefium) was by Amurath his commandment,in rable ; .but what avail vain Complaints, but to in-
trifii by this time of peace, by (udden aflault given in the creafe old griefs? wherefore again to that we have
tki ¥?& night by die Lord Eurenofes, taken alfix in hand.
With this foul dealing and breach of League, The proud Sultan Amurath (having to his great
yet in force, the Chriftians hardly charged Amu. content thus leated himfelf at Hadrianople^ in the
_ rath > who turned it over to the unrulinefs of his midft ofThracia) prefently tent out his Tutor Lai.*
Captains and Men of War, whom he threarned Scbabin with a great Power to invade the Country
with great (everity to punifli; and to give the about Pbilippopolis with .die Country of Zagora,
better colour that it was done without his privity,] which lieth cowards the great Mountain Hcemns,
H he had fained himfelf lick all the while thele where the. beft Turkifli Scimitars were made, I
things were in doing; but being rcqueftcd to reftore giving like charge unto Surenofes, for the (iibduing
thole. Cities (b wrongfully taken from the Chrifti­ of the Territory of Jpfala ; who both notably perans,
he utterly refuted fo to do, laying, That it formed what he had commanded, and in wort
was againft the Law of his great Prophet Mahomet, time brought ail thole Countries under bis Sub­
to deliver again to the Chriftians, any Town or jection , wherein he fhortly after placed divers
City wherein the Mahometan Religion had been Sanzacks or Governors, for the better aiTurance
once openly taught. Whereupon Wars began thereof, being (b lately gained.
again to ante on fre(h betwixt the Chriftians and About this time (by die (iiggeftion of Car a "Rape*
hun, wherein (bmetime the one prevailed, and mes a Doctor of die Mahometan Law) ZmJerlu
ibmetime the other » in (uch (brt, as thole Wars at Cbetil, then Cadelejher or chief Juftice among the
length became unto them bodi very* tedious. Turks, but afterwards better known by die name
Wherefore Amurath made peace again- with the oiCatradm Bafj'a, by the Commandment of Amu-
Chriftians of Hadrianople, Selyhria, and Confiantino* rat b, took order, that every fifth Captive of the
fie i yet defiring nodiing more in heart, than to Chriftians, being above fifteen years old, (hould
cake the City of Hadrisnople > which the better be taken up for die King, as by Law due unto
to bring to pals, he cauled Cbafis-llbeg as a di£ him > and if die number were under five, then
contented Captain to fly to Hadriattople, pretend­ to pay to the King for every Head 1$ Alpers,
ing himfelf to have been hardly ufed by. the by way of Tribute; appointing Officers for col­
H Tyrant his Matter; where having in his Compaled both of (uch Captives and Tribute money,
ny other (uch diflcmbling Fugidves as washim- of whom the aforelaid Cmr* Ruftemes himfelf was
ielf, he oftentimes UTued out of the City and vali­ chief, as firft deviter of the matter. By which
antly sjdrmiflied with the Turks; which (b greatly means great numbers of Chriftian Youths were
H pleated the Governor of Hadrianoph , that he brought to the Court as the Kings Captives* 3
thereby grew into his great favour.
which by the countel of the fame Zinderh Or.
Many other Turks alio under pretence of like lit, were diftributed among die Turkifli Husband­
difcontentment, refined unto Cbafis j wherewith men in Afiifthere to learn die Turkifli Language,
finding hi mlelf well ftrengthned, he writ Letters Religion, and Manners » where after they had
fecredy unto Anm«tb>£hax he would deliver one been brought up in all painful labour and travel
by

Boga ttkl*
h.
Arauracn
and Ttcovtrtd
Amurath, Third King of the Turks. 33
again tnd
rafid bj Town was not long after again recovered by the
tbiCMjti- Chriftians, who requited the Turks with like measure,
and doubting the keeping thereof, raledit
down to the ground; yet was it afterwards
Boga nm
hilt by
tbtfurfyt '
by the ipace of two or three year*' they were
called unto the Court, and choice made of the
better fort of them to attend upon the Perfbn of
the Prince, or to ferve him in Iris Wars; where
theydaflypra&ifing all feats of activity ,are called
by the name of Janixxrj (that is to fey, new SouldiersO
This was the firft beginning of the Janitors
under this Sultan Amurath the Firir, but had great
increate under Amuraih the Second,irifomiich that
Joviur with fame other Hiftoriographers attribute
the beginning of this Order-to him > which nevertheless
(asappeareth by the Turks own Hiftories)
had the beginning as is aforefaid > and hath ever
lince been continued by the Turkifh Kings and
Emperors, by the feme and fome other greater
means, lb that in procefs or rime they be grown
to that greatnefs as that they are oftentimes right
dreadful to the great Turk himfelf* after whote
death they have fometimes preferred to the Empire
iuch of the Emperors Sons as they baft liked,
[without refpect. of prerogative or age*, contrary to
the will of the great Sultan himfelf; and are at
this day the greateft ftrength of the Turkifh Empire,
and not unlike in time to be the greateft
Ca of the mine thereof; the finger of the
Higheft oftentimes (as we have before laid) turning
even thole helps which were by mans wiiclom
provided for the eftablifhing of Kingdoms, unto
their more lpeedy deftrudtion s and efpecially
thefe continual Garrifons of martial men, no els
to be feared than trufted, as in the courfe of this
Hiftory may appear.
When Amurath had thus a great while continued
at Hitdriatiople, determining now to return, unto
•A/ia, he made Scbabin his Tutor Beg-Lerbeg or
Vice-Roy of Romania; and Enre*ofetlbt& Governor
of the Marches > Zinierlu Cbelilhe made Vezir
Azcmes or Lord Prcfident of his Counfel, and
changing his name, called him Gairadin Baffa, that
is to fay, The Bajf* that had well deferred, his
name witnefling his good defert. After this he
returned into JJiat where he fpent that Winter at
Prufa.Th&& two great men Cairadin Baffa and Car a
JRW named, fometimes two Doctors of
the Mahometan Law, were (as the Turkifh Hiftories
report) the firft that corrupted the Turkifh
Court with Coveroufhefs and Bribery, and are
therefore of them even yet much blamed.
Whilft Amurath thus wintred in AJiat News was
brought unto him, That the ChriftiansofS*rw*
and Bulgaria had gathered a great Army for the
befieging of HadnanopU \ which cauied him to prepare
great Forces in AJia, to aid his Captains in
Europe. But in returning out of AJiaJtvz by the way
took the Town of Boga;where he put to the Sword
all the Chriftians that were therein able to bear
Arms, leading the reft into Captivity, and with
the ipoil rewarded his Souldiers. This ftrong
reedified by the Turks, as it is at this prefent to be
&enj which was done in the year of our Lord,
1365.
In the mean time, the Chriftian Army of Serbia
and Bulgaria, in number betwixt forty and
fifty thoufand, marching towards Hadrianople, and
now come very near the lame, fell in mutiny
among themfelves. Whereof the Turks by their
Efpials having intelligence, fiiddenly in the night
fet upon them; who blinded with inward hatred,
and no lefs fearing one another, than their Enemies
neglected to joyn their Forces againft them,
but were ready to turn their Weapons one upon
another^ and lb by their own difcord, more than
by the Enemies force, tfere made a prey to the
Turks, by whom they were put to flight, and flam,
with fo great a flaughter, that'the place wherein
"they felI,not far from Germia, is thereof at this day
called Zirf-Zindugi; that is to fay, the place
wherein the Servians were overthrown. The hews
of this ib notable a Victory, with the fith part of
the Spoil, and a great number of the heads Of the
flain Chriitiahs, were (after the barbarousmanncr
;6f the Turks) lent to Amurath into y^fr,being now
ready with a great Power to have come over tb
Callifolis; who joyful thereof, and glad to fee luch
a prefent, the allured witnefs of the Victory, returned
again to Trufa. This was dorte in the year,
1366. In which year alfo Amurath With wonderful
Triumph circumcifed his two Sons, Bajaz'et and
Jacup. At which time he alio built a Temple,
with a Monaftry and a Colledge, at Bilezuga v
land another fair Church at Neapolis: AtPrufa
he alfo built a ftately Palace in the Gaftle, with a
great Church at the Gates thereof> in Which City
he alfo founded an Abbey and a Colledge. Germean
Ogli, a great Mahometan Prince in AJia
(whofe Territory for the molt part lay in the
greater Phrygia,. and the Countries thereabout,
Bordering upon the Otboman Kingdom) having
always envyed at the rifih'g Of the Otboman Kings
(as did all the reft of the Mahometan Princes \of
the SelzMccian Family) and fearing that their
Greatnefs might after his death grow dangerous to'
hisfbfl yacuppting now himfelf very aged,thought
good for the more" lafety of his State to joyn iri
Alliance with Amurath. And for that purpofe fenfc
Ifaac (a learned Doctor of the Mahometan Law)
Embaffador to hinl, with many rich Prelents, and
to offer his Daughter, the Lady Hatun, in marriage
unto his Son Bajaziet» promiflhg with her iri
Dowry divers great Cities and Towns, with their
Territories in Pfoygia and 2tf/^M,adjoyhfng upon
the Otboman Kingdom V 1XXtXi&^'Cuiaie,Simau,Egiregios,
Taufanle, and others. Neither Was this a fmall
Dowry, but well befeeming Co great a Prince i the
City of Cutaie being at this day the place whereat
the Turkifh Emperors great Lieutenant or Vice-
Roy in AJia is always reliant, as in the heart of
his Kingdom in the lefler AJia. Of which Match
fa offered, Amurath liking well, contracted his Sdri
Bajazet unto the laid Ladyjand for Solemnization
of the Marriage, prepared all things with great
Magnificence, fending his Embaffadors to moft
of the Mahometan Kings and Princes both far
and near, to invite thereunto> commanding al-feV
moft of the Nobility of his Kingdom, to honour
the fame with their prefertce. The time of this
^Marriage drawing near, Embaffadors came to
Amuratbs Court, from all the Princes before invited
*, amongft whom, the Embaflador from the
Egyptian Sultan had the higheft place. Thefe
Bmbailkdors brought With them many great and
rich Gifts, fiich as Well befeemed the great Princes
their Mailers,which they with all Reverence prefentcd
unto Amurath. At length amongft the reft
of his own Nobility came rhe Lord Eurenofes,
whom he had before left Governor of the Frontiers
of his Kingdom in Europe > who befides many
other rich Gifts not eafily to be valued, prefented
unto Amurath an hundred goodly Boys, with as
many beautiful young Maidens, all Chriftian
Captives, fiitably attired in Garments richly embroidred
with Gold and Silver, every one of them
carrying a Cup of Gold in the one hand, and a
Cup of Silver in the other > the Cups of Gold
having in them divers precious Stones of great
value, and the Cups or Silver being rilled with
Gold. The rtchneis of this Prefent Was fb great,
that all the Embaffadors of the foreign Princes
much wondred thereat. All which rich Gift Amm
rath moft bountifully bellowed upon the ftrange
Embaffadors;

Amnrath
invaditb
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4"» bjtbt
Appolonia
vn
h the
T*kf.
Embafladors i and the Prefents which were feat
unto him from other Princes, he liberally gave to
Enrenofes. The Learned and Religious which
came to that Marriage he fb bountifully rewarded
alfb, that none came to the lame poor, but he
went away rich. He had before fent divers ofnis
KobiHty,with an hundred Ladies and Gentlemen,
and a Guard of three thoufand Horfemen, to attend
the coming of the Bride. On the other fide,
Amurath, Third King of the Turks.
the old Prince Germean-Ogli meeting this honourable
Company upon the way, faluted every man
of Account according to his Degree > and bringing
them to one of his Cities, in molt Royal manner
jeafted them, bellowing upon them, many
rich and princely Gifts» all which things widi
great Solemnity performed, he delivered" his
Daughter 1 "the Bride to two of the moft ancient
Ladies, whereof the one had been Bajaztts Nurfe's
and fb taking leave of his Daughter, fent her
away, accompanied with his Wife JenftJ, and
other of his Courtiers, who conveying her to
Frufa, (he was there in moft Royal manner married
to Buja&et. The Cities and Towns promifed
in Dowry, were accordingly delivered into the
PoflefSon of Amurath, who fbprtly after took Fpfleffion
of the fame, and forhifhed them with his
own Garrifbns.
At this Marriage Chujen-Beg Prince of Amifum
in Galatia, by his EmbalTador fold his Territory
of Antifum unto Amuratb,\vith many fair Cities
and Towns s doubting, as it was though't,how~
to be able to keep them, now that Amurath was
come fb near him, whom he faw not tb let flip
any occafion offered unto him for the inlarging
ofnis Kingdom. When Amur at h had in this fort
fbent great time in AJia, he gathered a ftrong
Army to return into Europe j but before his departure,
ne committed the Government of his Kingdom
in AJia (which the Turks call Anatolia) unto
his Son Bajaztt, joyning with him Tcmwrtafes a
Valiant man of great experience > and having fet
other .ftrong Towns upon the Frontiers of Tbeffaha
and Thrace.. In the. City Seres Eurenofes niade
his abode, as in a chief Frontier Town; and becaufe
the Chriftians for fear of the Turks were
all fled out of the Country about Seres, great numbers
of people were fern for put of AJia, to inhabit
that Country by i&e.Ch'riftians forfaken in,tne
Confines of Maccdonia±Amuratb\ had not long eon-;
tinued at T&JrianopIe, but thai he was advertifed
out of Afa That AlXtin his Son in law King of
Cdramania, did with Fire-and Swor4 inyage .Jiis
Dominions hi AJia; with wych News he was, exceedingly
troubled. And for diat caufe ^djng
for his Cbanfellors and NobUiry to the Osur^told
them, how that Aladin forgetting all fheiondjs of
Religion, Faith,Peace,and Afliance,with altlJplKlity
invaded liis Provinces in AJia, whilft He'with
great danger of hisPerfbnian&greater terror, ^ofijis
Enemies, fought with honour to increafe 'fih^.Mahometan
fincerc Religion (as he ternied .«t),^a
Europs •>'from which godly War (faid'heO'.'I-.g|ni
againft my will enforced to turn my Syi^pr^io;
juft defence of my felf, againft men joyne'dwlth
us both in Religion and Alliance^ And having
thus declared liis mind, he appointed! CbaitaHin
Bajfa his Lieutenant-General in Europe, and alfb
made his Son Alts Bajfa one of his CouncUy although
he were by fbme thought too young.for jJP.
fb great, £ place. And fb having fet all things in
order according to his mind in. £w^,cook pallage
from Callipolis into AJia, and fb to his' Court at'
Trufa, where he fpent that Winter. InVhich time
EmbaiTadors came unto him from the Sultan of
Egypt, for, the renewing of. their former Amity
anuFricndfhip; which Amurath took very thankfully,
and fent them back again loaden with kind
Letters and princely Rewards.
When the Spring was come, in the year, 1387. Amurath
he levied a mighty Army to make War upon the **d Aia-
Caramanian King his Son in Law. Whereof Aladin
all things in order in AJia, pafied over Hellefpontus,
to Calipolis, from whence he marched towards
Hadrianople *> and becaufe he would take fomething
in his way, he befieged Magalgara, which he in
fliort time won; where Lata Schabin and Eurenofes
widi all their Forces came to him \ which two
Captains he fent to befiege the City Pherce, which
was by them after .a few days liege taken. But he
himfelf to be revenged upon Lazarm the Defpor,
led his Army into Scrvia • where after he had
without refinance fbrraged the Country fourteen
days, underftanding by his Captains, That the
ftrong City of NiJJajDQing the Metropolitical City
of Servtatwns as it were the Key of that Kingdom,
he prefently marched thither, and laid fiege to
the fame; and by the advice of J axis-Be? the Son
of temurtafes, in fhort time won it. Which thing
fb daunted Lazarus Defpot or Lord ofServia, that
he defpairing in his own Forces, having fb fbon
loft one of hisftrongeft Ciries,forthwirh lent Embaffadors
to Amurath to intreat a Peace ; offering
to pay him a yearly Tribute of fifty thoufand
pounds, and to aid him with a thoufand men in
his Wars, whenfbever he fhould require; upon
which conditions Amaratb granted him Pcace,and
fb departed out of Scrvia. In this Expedition he
alfb with much ado won the great City of Appohnia,
near unto die Mount Athos, and gave leave
unto moft of the Chriftians, with their Wives and
Children to depart, and fiich part of their goods
as was not in the taking thereof fpoiled by die
Souldiers. This done, he returned back to Hadrianople,
leaving Eurenofes upbn die Marches, who
fhordyaftertook J5«rAc*,with divers other Towns.
At which time alibi,*/* Scbabm won Zkbhe and
Seres, in the Confines of Macedonia*, with many
din W~
certainly informed, prepared no lefs Power to />%',/»,.
meethira, aftbeiating unto him all the lefs Maho- tm.
metan Princes of ./(/fa, which were not under Amufatbs
Obeyfance,to whom the Otboman Kings were
now grown terrible» which Princes brought with
them great Supplies to joyn with Alaiin*
Aladin thus aided by his Friends, dunking him-;
felf now ftrong enough for Amurath his Father ii^
law, fent an EmbalTador unto him,cerdfying him,
That he was nothing in Power inferior to him. /
and therefore nothing feared him > yet if it pleafed
him to have Peace, that he could for his part be
content to hearken unto the fame upon reafbnable
conditions sjaut if he had rather have War,
he fhould find him ready to dare him battel in the
Field, whenfbever he fhould come. Foranfwerof
which "EsabASsLge,Amurath willed the Embaflador
to tell the perjured King his Mafter, That he had
of late, contrary to his Faith before given, in moft
cruel manner invaded his Dominions, whilft he
was bufied in moft godly Wars (as he termed it J
againft the misbelieving Chriftians; from profecuting
whereof, he was by his violence (as he Aid.)
withdrawn, contrary to the Law of their great
Prophet; for which Outrages and Wrongs he
would fhortly come and take of him (harp Revenge
> ahd'ehat diereforehe was to expect nodiing
at his hands but War, for which he willed
him fb to provide, as that at his coming be might
not find him wanting to himfelf. Aladin by his
Embaflbr having received this anfwer from Amur
rrtMflembled all die Confederate Princes his Allies,
widi great Perfwafions and greater Proraifes
encouraging diem to this War; and they .again
kifHng the ground at his Feet, as the manner of
that Nation is before great Princes, promiicd with
fblemn Oaths never to forfake him, but to do all
things

Amurath, Third King of the Turks. *35
things which Princes defirous of Honour or Fame,
I ought by their Oath to do for their Sovereign, to
whom they ought Homage and Duty.
pfti duib ^ this great preparation for Wars in Afiat Qhay
dj C Kt **&* Ba fl a 8 encra ^ Governor in Europe died ;
* which ^ww«*&underftanding,appointed Alts Baffa
of this Hiftory is declared.) Into there" Plains* afto
came Aladin with his Army,and was now incamped
within one days march of Amurath, and fo-retted
that night.
The next morning Amurath put his Army in or­
der of battel, appointing the leading of the right
his Son to go into Europe-, there to be Governor in Wing to his youngeft Son Jaeup, with whom he
Wk his Fathers ftead. But he was flayed in his Jour­ joyned Cmluz.es Beg, Ein BegSubbajja, Egridum Subney
by urgent'occafions» which Amurath underbaffa, Seraze, and Cufiendtl, two Qhriftian Princes,
iranding, tent for him back again in poft. all Captains of great experience. The left Wing
I Aladm forecafting the great dangers like to 'was led by Bajazet his eldett Son, with Ferize and
entire of this War, lent another Embaflador to Hozze, both valiant Captains > in which Wings
Amurath, with reasonable conditions of Peace \ were alfb placed die Chriftian Souldiers lent by
I to whom Amurath anfwered, That if Aladm had Lazarus out of Sertna, according to the late con­
made that Offer one month before, he would vention of peace; in the main battel he flood
perhaps have accepted thereof j but for lb much himielf; the Vauntguard was conducted by Temur­
•I as he had done him great wrong, and that he had tafes , and the rereward by the SubbaJJ'a of OxvBi-
now to his infinite Charge drawn him into the tbus ('called alfb Temurtafes) and Acbmetcs. Aladin
field fo far from home, he would not make any on the other fide, with no Iefs care and diligence
I other end than fiich as the chance of War fhould fet his men like wile in order of battel, placing
appoint. And whereas he in difgrace had called himielf in the main battel, as did Amurath> and
meaHerdfman or Shepherd (laid- he) if he be the Princes bis Allies, with his other expert Cap­
H not fiich an one himfelf, as he faith me to be, let tains, fome in the right Wing, and Ibme in the
him meet me in the field and there try his valor, j left, as he thought mott convenient; in fuch fort,
Hereunto the Embaflador replied, laying, That as that in all mens judgment he was in Force no­
* the King his Matter made this Offer of Peace not J thing inferior to his Father in Law.
for any rear, but to lave the effufion of innocent There great Enemies thus ranged, with Enfigns
blood > which confideration let apart, he mould difplaid came on couragioufly, one directly upon
B find him not inferior to himfelf, either an number the other ; where approaching together, the con­
of moft expert Souldiers, or other" War-like Profuted noife of Trumpets, Drums, Fifes, with other
vifion; and that therefore if he rejected this Offer Inttruments of War, the neighing of Horfes, and
H of Peace, he needed not to doubt but to meet clattering of Armor,was fb great,that whilft War­
with men of courage, which would bear them- I like minds thereat refoycedjCowards thought Hea­
felves fo valiantly in the field againft his Turks, ven fell. But the fign of battel on both fides given,
B as that he mould have no great caufe to re joy ce of Samagazes one of the Confederate Princes, with ex­
his coming thither. Which words of die Embaflaceeding* courage firft charged Temurtafes in the
dor fb nerled Amurath,tha.tin great rage he com- Vantguard, and broke his Ranks-, at which time
£ njtr manded him to depart, and to will his Matter, if Teberrufes a Tartar Prince, and Varfacides another
he were a man or fiich courage and valour as he of the Confederates, delivered their Arrows alio
faid,to fhew himielf in the field with all his Forces, upon the Vantguard, as if it had been a fhower of
E there to make an end of all quarrels » where he Hail.Which Bajazet leeing,and how hardly Temur­
doubted not but in fhort time to chaftife him actafes was charged, having before obtained leave of
cording to his doe deferts. So after the Embafla­ his Father, brake in upon the Enemy with fiich
dor was departed, marching forward three days, violence, as if it had been the lightning; whereof
Alu Beg came unto him > of whole coming he he was ever after firnamed Gilderun, which is to
not a little rejoyced; for why, he loved him dear­ fay, The Eghtning. Ferizes and Hozze, with the'
ly, and although he was yet of years but young, other valiant Captains in that Wing, following
relied much upon his Council.
Bajazer}with invincible courage entred the battel y
The Embaflador returning.recounted unto Ala­ where for a great fpace was made a molt dreadful
dm all that Amurath had faid,not omitting his hard and doubtful fight. A man would have thought
Speeches and proud Threats, and how that he two rough Seas had met together, fwaying one
hoped fhorrly to take from him Iconium and Laren- againft the other, doubtful which way the current
B da (the principal Cities of Caramania) with many would at length fall. In this conflict many thou-
things more,leaving nothing -untold. 'WiaehAladin lands were on both fides flain, fo that the field lay
hearing, faid unto the Confederate Princes that covered with the dead bodies of worthy Men and
were wich him, Verily Amurath threatneth to take valiant Souldiers; yet at length there Confederate
from us -die Cities of Iconium and Lmrenda> but let Princes, -finding themfelves overmatched by Bajahim
take heed that we take not from him his fair \-zet and his Souldiers, referving themfelves to
City of Pmfa. Then demanding of the Embafla­ their better Fortunes, turned their backs and fled;
dor, of what ftrength Amurath might be; it was when Aladm feeing a great part of his Array thus
anfwered by him, that he deemed him to be about overthrown, and himielf now ready to be charged
ieventy thoufand fbong. Whereat Aladm not a with Amurath his whole Power, defpairing of
little rejoycing, laid, Afluredly when he fhall fee Victory, lped himfelf in all haft to iconium, his
our Army, he will not dare to give us battel; or if ftrong City: The fpoil which Amurath got in this
M be do, he fhall fight upon great difadvantage, his
battel was great, moft part whereof.he gave in
men being both fewer in number than we, and
reward to Temurtafes and his Souldiers, which had
fore wearied with long and painful travel.
indured the greateft fury of the battel. Amurath
after this Victory with all fpeed marched to Iconi­
In the mean time Amurath held on his way toum,
and there befieged Aladin the Caramanian
wards iamania, daily encouraging his Souldiers
King, in his ftrongeft City, giving out Proclama­
with Perfwafions and Gifts bounrinilly bellowed
tion in the mean time, That none of his Souldiers
upon them, -filling their heads with promifes of
upon pain of death fhould ufeany violence to any
B greater,the War once happily ended. At length he
or the Country-people, or take any thing from
came to the great Plains in Caramania, called the
them; to the intent it might appear unto .the
French Plains Jaec&ufc'm former time the Chriftians
World,tnat he made that War againft that Maho­
B (whom the Turks for raoft part call Franks} in thofe metan King,ratherto
places incamped their great Armies, as they went
to the winning of JerufaUm (as in the former part
: Tht gnat
baud in
the plains
of Caramania,
btrtvixt
Amurath
and Ala*
din.
Aladin
jtittb to
[Iconium.
Iconium
bifugtd bi
Amurath*
propulle Injury and Wrong,
than for defire of Soveraignty or Spoil. Which
his

Amuratb, TJmi\ King of the Turks.
his fo ftrait a Proclamation, the ChrilHans lent by
Lazarm, amongft others, tranferefled i and therefore
by his commandment iuffered ( many of
them) exemplary punifliment; which was the
caufe of the Servian War which not long after en-
Iued,fatal both unto Amuratb and Lez^rm the DeP
pot, as hereafter mail appear. V > w
Ala Jin now on every fide befieged in Ieontum,
and without all hope of elcape, fentto the Queen
his Wife, Amuratbs Daughter, bewailing unto her
his deiperate eftate, and requefting her'by all the
lore that fo honourable a minded Lady might
bear unto her roiferable Husband,to adventure her
felf to go to her angry Facher,and to-crave pardon
for his great Trefpab and Offence. The Queen
forthwith attiring her felf, as was ficteft for
iier Husbands prelent eftate, came to her Father i
where falling down at his Feet upon her knees,
with words wifely placcd,and tears uiftilling down
her fair Cheeks from her fairer Eyes, as it it had
been from two Fountains, in moft forrowful manner,
craved her Husbands Pardon, imputing to
the heat of Kouth whatsoever he had done; and
would not be comforted or taken up,until (he had
obtained Grace. Amuratb moft entirely loved this
his Daughter, and therefore for her fake not only
granted unto her,her Husbands life (which in (hoit
time was like to have been in his power to have
ipflt) but alio his Kingdom, which he as a Vi&orious
Conqueror might by Law of Arms have, of
right detained. She now allured of her Fathers
promife, fent unto her Husband Aladtn, wifhing
him the next day without fear to come out of
the City, and in humble fort to acknowledge his
fault before her Father. Who the next morning
accordingly came out, and proftrating himfelf before
Amuratb, acknowledged his undutifulnefs; of
whom (Tor his Wives fake) he obtained Pardon,
and Reftitution to his Kingdom, with many other
great Gifts,contrary to his evil defert. The Latine
Hiftories miftaking the man, report this Carama-
•nlan War, to have been fought againit the King of
Caramania, Amuratb his own Grandfather. by the
Mother fide; and that he was by Amuratb then
ipoiled of a great part of his Kingdom; but it
agreeth not with the Turkifh Hiftories, which
others were licenfid to depart into their own
Country. Whofe General (whom they call the
Vay vod) returning home, reported unto hmuumt
the Defpot, the luccefs of that War, and withall
in what cruel and tyrannical manner the men he
had fent were in that Service ufed by the commandment
of Amuratb. With whom (laid this
General) you without caufe have made a moft
difhonourable Peace ; firft, by giving your Faith
to fuch a Mifereant, and then in fending your
loyal Subjects, in recom pence of their good Service,
to be lb butchered at his pleafiire ; befide
the fhameful Tribute which you yearly pay unto
him. Whereas if it would pleafe you in the depth
of your wifclom but to know your own ftrength,
you fhould find your felf in War-like force and
power nothing inferior to the Tyrant ; for we
your Servants being in number out a handful,
were in thefe his late Wars a terror unto his Enemies,
and by our valour, and not his own, he got
the Victory over them. What caufe is there then,
that you fhould f iibjeet your felf unto your Inferior
? I know he cannot of himfelf bring into die
field above fifty thoufand fighting men; but admit
he were able to bring a hundred thoufand,
are not you (if you fo pleafe) able to levy a far
greater Power? and for all other War-like provifion
you are ten-fold better provided than he. "Be>
fides that, the mighty Chriftian Princes will fend
you fuch Aid againft this hateful and common If
Enemy,that being united widi.yours,his Barbarian
Forces will be nothing in comparifbn of thole
which you fhall then be able to bring into the
field againft him; which no doubt the Chriftian
Princes will the rather do, as men defirous to
quench this devouring fire in another mans houic,
rather than in their own.
Thefe words of the Vay vod lb roach moved Lazarus
Lazarus, that he determined in himfelf to break '*» ptftet
that fervile League which he before had made { , Jr"j, £ *'
with Amuratb- And for that caufe fent his Em- "£S
baffador with fecret Inftructions to the King of aid of tbt
Be/ha (in time paft called Illjma) his Neighbour; Kit «/
whereof the chief point was, to crave his Aid Bo, ' Da "
againft die Turk their common Enemy. By
whom the King of Bo/ha returned this anfwer,
make Amuratb to be the Son of Orcbanet and Lulu- That it had been much better Iuch confideration
fer, the Daughter of the Governor of the Caftle had been thought upon before the foul contract
of Jarcbifer, as is before -declared in the life of (full .of difgrace both to himfelf and all other
Otboman; which Ltilufer liech buried by her Hu£ Chriftian Princes) was upon a vain fear by him
' band Ore bancs in FruJ'a.
rafhly made widi the Turkifh Tyrant; yet for fb
This greatVictbry gotten by Amwatb againft the much as things done could not be undone, letting
Car am anion King, and the other Confederate Priri- that pals which was remedilds». he promifed to
ces,vvas the true beginning of the greatnefi of the joyn with him his whole Forces againft fo dange­
Otboman Kingdom in Apa; wherewith the other rous an Enemy. And thereupon appointing a
Mahometan Princes of the Selzuccim Family were place for an Interview, met accordingly, and there
fo dif couraged,that they were glad to fii bmit thera- fully concluded all die Articles of their Confedefelves
thus firft unto Amuratb, and after that unto ration.
his Son Bajazet; until that Tamerlane the great There was in the Confines of Bofna a Caftle
Tartarian Prince,fbme few years after,taking Baja- called Alexandria, the Captain whereof being a
zet Prjfoner in a great battel at Mount Stella, Chriftian, was yet Tributary unto the Turk »
abated the Otboman Pride, and reftored the other wifhing unto him iuch good, as men opprefled
opprefled Mahometan Princes to their old Pofle£ uf e to do to them by whom they are fb wronged.
lions and Kingdoms.
This Captain under the colour ofBriendfhip went
Amuratb returning home wards,by the way took to Amuratb, and in great lecrecy opened to him
the City of Dejpotopolis, and coming to Cm-ait, the whole State rf the Kingdom of Bofna ; and
brake up his Army, and fb in triumph returned to withal], that the King thereof intended fome
his Court at Prufa.
great matter againft him; for the preventing
Lazarus, Deipot of Servia (in old time called whereof he offered his own Service, and fhewed
Myfia) had fent a thoufand armed men to Amuratb fome probable means how that Kingdom might
in this the late Caramanian War, according to the be brought into his Subjection, if he would but
convention of the Peace not long before made fend fome worthy General with a convenient
betwixt them; fome of which Souldiers, were Power for the undertaking thereof. This won-
with great feverity (to the terror of others) exederfully pleafed the ambitious old Tyrant, who
cuted in Caramania, for cranfgreffing Amuratb his therefore commanded a rich Garment to be caft
commandment. This great War being ended, upon the Captain (which amongft die Turks is
and the Army broken up at Cut ate, they with taken for a fure token of the Kings great Favour.)

Amuratb, Third
and forthwith appointed his Tutor Lala Scbabin,
according to this Captains direction, to invade
H the Kingdom of BofnJ* Who joynjng himfelf with
I ttris deceitful Captain of Alexandria, with an
Army of twenty thoufand men entred into Bofita >
where overrunning a fide of the Country,he without
remittance took great Booties » and feeing no
apparent caufe of rear, to do the more harm, by
.'.' the advice of the fame Captain divided his Army,
- whichhe lent into divers parts of the Country,
the more, to burn and fpoil* the lame. Of all
whofe proceedings the King of Bo/ha by fecret
•Meflengers from* the Captain advertifed, had in
H convenient places laid ftrong Ambuflies for the
MB intercepting of his Enemies. So that as Schahin
wasreturning homeward with a rich booty,having
then with him but a thoufand men, fuddenly appeared
in.bis way thirty thoufand Chriftians
well armed; which Scbabin feeing, thinking it
S3 folly to oppofe fb few againft fb many, would
I have prefently fled; but the reft of the Gallants
that were with him, prefuming of their good Fort^
B tune; and loth to Iofe their rich Prey, would needs
firffc Skirmifh with the. Chriftians ; in which def-
perate Conflict, they were almoft all flain, and the
D ipoil th//', whom he had before j came to Amuratb at Cahide, where falling flat
fent Embaflador to the Sultan of Egypt in requital upon the ground, at the Horfes feet whereon
of the honourable EmbafTage before to him fent Amuratb fate, he UjT'moft humble wife craved
from the faid Sultan. Now Amuratb wylcrRund- pardon i offering by a certain day to deliver Stliing
of the lofs of his men in Bofna, with the revolt ? firsa the chief City of his Dominion, into Amur
;- • of Lazarus. Defpot ofServia, was therewith much ratbs Poflbffion, as a pledge of his Fidelity ; who
di/quieted. Wherefore he • commanded Alu BaJJ'a thereupon granted him pardon, and to allure him
his chief Counfellor, with all fpeed to fend forth of his Favour, commanded a rich Garment to be
Commiffions into all parts of his Kingdom, for caft upon him, after the manner of the Turks,
the levying of a Royal Army; which was done fending sJhs BaJJ'a at the rime appointed, to take
H in fiich poft haft, that it was thought he would pofleflion of Stlijlria. But Safmenos repenting
have taken the Field before the beginning of the himfelf of that he had fb largely promifed, would
Spring. At which time alfb the other Mahometan not deliver liis City, but in itrohgeft manner he
lungs and Princes of AJia, Caramon Ogli, teke OgU could prefently fortified the fame. Wherewith
and the reft, bound unto him by Homage, with Amuratb more offended than before, commanded
divers others.of fmaller Power, were fent for, to the Baffa with Fire and Sword again to Ipoil and
H Aid him in his War » who partly for fear, and waft his Country; who according to his comr
partly moved with the zeal of their Mahometan mandment entred again into Bulgaria, and ftruck'
Superftition, brought their Forces with great de­ fiich a terror of his coming into the hearts of the
votion. Unto this War againft the Chriftians, people, that many ftrong places were voluntarily
came alfb great numbers of the Mahometans from. yielded into his Power, namely Diritze, CoJJbva,
H far Countries, as voluntary Souldiers. Bajaztt his with the City oFTemrva, the Seat of the Princes
Son alfb, then Governor o[Cutaie, with a great Court; Tz.ernevi, Novakeftri, Zijtovd, with divers
part of Galatia, gathering all his Forces, came to others > and proceeding farther, he laid fiege to
aid his Father in this religious War (as it was by Nicopolis, the ftrongeft City of Bulgaria, upon the
them termed.) The Chriftian Tributary Princes fide of the great River Danubim, whether Safmenos
were not then forgotten ; of whom two came, was for fear himfelf fled. Who finding himfelf
H namely Cujtendil and Seratz.ili other two forfeiting unable to hold out the Siege, once again (with
» Amuratb, came nor, which was Safmenos Prince of fhame enough) tying a Winding-fheet about his
Bulgaria, and the Prince of, Kama and Dobritz,a ,j Neck, as he had done before, and taking his Son
with whom Amuratb was highly offended. In the with him, went out of the City, and in, moft ab­
time of this fb great Preparation,old Lala Scbabin, ject manner falling down at rhe Baffa his Feet,
V •; Amuratks Tutor and faithful Servitor, died, being craved pardon i which the BafTa, moved With
K a man of great years > and "lemurtafes was appoint­ companion to fee the mifery of fb great a man,
ed Governor in his place.
and having already taken from him the greateft
The revolting of the two Chriftian Princes, &^ part of his Dominion, and now out of fear of farmenos
and the Prince of Varna, much grieved Amuratb
» Wherefore he commanded Alts BaJJ'a, with
an Army of thirty" thoufand to invade and ipoil
4
ther refiftance, eafily granted. And having thus
ended the Bulgarian War, returned to Amuratb, of
whom he was right joyfully received.
T Amuratb

i,8
Atmnteth, Third King of the Turks.
Amwath had now made great Preparation for
the invading of Sertria,, for which purpofe he had
drawn over into Europe the greateff Forces he
poffibly could oat of Afia; fending alfo for his
youngeft Son Jacjip, Governor of Carafia, who
undemanding his Fathers plealure, repaired imtp
him with all the Power he could make. This
Army by Amuratb thusaffembled,was thegreateft
that ever was before that*, brought by theTutks
into Europe. Lazarus not ignorant of this great
Preparation made by Amuratb, had drawn into
the fociety of this War, the King of Bofna (as is
was led by the King of Bofna, and bis Sons; in
the main battel Rood Lazarus himlelf i the Italians,
Valachians, Mangarians^ Bohemians, and Bulgariansi
he placed in both Wings. It is thought, greater
Armies than thole two had leldem before met in
Europe. Lazarus as the Turkifh Hiftories report
(but how truly I know not) having in his Army
five hundred tiioufand men > and Amuratb icarce
half fo many.
To begin the bAttA^Amuratb had drawn a chou-*
land of his beft Archers, under the leading of Mai- *j
a fore (aid) with Vulcm Prince of Macedonia, his Son
in law, who both brought unto him great Aid ;
he had alfo by his Embafladors procured great
Supplies from other Chriftian Kings and Princes,
out oiValacbia, Hungaria,Croatia,SclavBnia,Albania,
Bulgaria, and Italy3 bcfides great numbers of other
voluntary devout Chriftians, which all aiTcmbled
and met together, did in number far exceed the
great Army of the Turks.
Tbt ctflU ' With this Army Lazarus the Delpot encamped
o/Sarkive Upon the fide of the Rivet Morova the greater,
tin fin- aotfer from whence ftoodthe ftrong Cattle of
inglnio' Sarkive, which A Us BaJJ'a had of late taken from
it, talftn Sa/menos the Bulgarian Prince, ftanding as it were
^' b J. betwixt Bulgaria and Servian this Cattle being
adtafiL tiOW P° ffeffed of the Turks, was thought by Lazarus
dangerous to his Country, who therefore feht
one Demetrius, a right valiant Captain, withcertain
Companies of lelect. Men to take in the lame.
The name of this Captain Dimetrius,was a general
terror unto the Turks, for the harm he had done
,. .them ; fo that they in the Cattleheaiingthathe
was come, without further refifrance yielded the
lame unto him. Whereof Anmrat'h underftandinjg',
lent Erne, and Sarutze Baffa to recover the feme »
but Lazarus doubting that tneCaffile would hardly
be kept in that dangerous War, lent Vuktts Ws t cczzeus, out of the right Wing of his Army; and
the like number of Archers out df the left, under
the conduct of one Mufiapba; which fo placed on
both fides of the Army ,as hediought \x&fEunmftt
a man of great experience, told Amuratb^Thax the
Chriftians were for the moft part well and ftrongly
armed, and fhouldring dole together in their
charge, would be like a Rock of Iron,unable to be
pierced; but if in joyning die battel, he would a
little retire, the Chriftians following upon good
hope, would fo looie their dole ftanding (die
chief part of their ftrcngth) and leave an entrance
for his Men. Upon which refohirion, Amuratb commanded
the Archers to give the firft Charge ;
which they* cburagioufly performed. At which
time, the Turks Army gave ground a little; which
the GhrHtians perceiving, with great force affailed
the left' Wing of their AfWiy*,and altera hard and
crfleiftght'puttile forti-to flight; which Bajazet
feeing, wkrvfoeh foryi'ehfewed the bacteljdiatrthe-
Turks which before as men dilcouragod fled in
tiie'lcft'Wfigjbegan now to turn again upon Aeir
Enenfles; and the Chriftians, having -as they
thought already got die Victory, were to begin a
great battels In which bloody fight many thou*
lands- fell'on "both fides; die bnghtnefs of die'
Armor and Weapons, was as it had been doe
Son lightning; the multitude
in law with twenty thouland Men, to bring away
all that was therein, and in the City near unto it,
left it fhould become a prey unto .the greedy Turks;
which he accordingly did, and at the lame time
rafed both the Cattle and the City, before the
coming of Jaxis Beg, lent from Amuratb jo have
done the fame exploit* which he coming thMier,
found already done to his hand by Vulctts.' '
As Amuratb was marching towards Servia,\Seratze
and CufitnMl, two Chriftian Princes his Tributaries,
met him with their Forces, whom he
caufed to march before him, as his Guids y and
palling through Cufiendil his Country, was there
refreihed with plenty of all things neceffary; until
at length patting the River of Morwa the left, he
drew to near to the Plains of Coflbva (where the
Chriftian Army lay) that he with his Son Bajazet
from a litrie Hill took Ml view of the Chriftian
Camp, which was fo great, that it covered all
thole large Plains from fide to lide.and fo daunted
Amuratb, as that returning to his Army, he prefendy
entred into a great 'consultation with his
greateft Captains and Commanders, what courie
to take againft inch a puhTant Enemy.
Thefe great Armies being now come fo nigh
together, as that they might the one well delcry
the other, Amuratb had purposed die lame day to
have given the Chriftians battel; but being di£
1 waded by Eurenofes, both for that it was extream
hot,and his Souldiers wearied with travel,he retted
that night. The next morning as loon as it was
day, he put his Army In order of battel, placing
his Son Bajazet with Eurenofes and Erne Beg Subbajfa,va
the right Wing > his youngeft Son Jacupjmth
Sarutze Baffa in the left Wing» the main battel he
led himlelf. Lazarus in die mean time had alfo let
his Army in good order» giving die charge of the
right Wing to Vutcut has Son in law > die left Wing
5 of Launccs and other
Horleitiens Staves, fhadowed die light of die Sun»
-Arrows arid-Darts fell lb fa ft, that a man would,
have thought- they had poured down from Heaven
» the rioifeof the inftrumencs of War, widi
the neighing-of Horfes, and out-cries of Men was
fo terrible' and great, thatr-the wikl Bcafts of the
Mountains ftood aftonied therewith > and die
Tunkilh Hiftoriesi to exprefs die terror of die day
Cvainly lay} that the Angels in Heaven amazed
With that hideous noiie, for that time forgot ftfac
heavenly Hymns whefewith they always giorifift
God. About noon time of the day, the fortune of
the Turks prevailing, die Chriftians began to give
ground, and at length betook thciulclves to plain
flight; whom the Turks with all their, force pur*
foed and flew them down right, without number
or mercy*' 'In which battel Lazarus the Delpot iaunt
himlelf was alfo flain. Howbeit fome Hiftories re- ^a,,.
port ©therwile, as that he with his Son were taken
Prifoners, and by and by afterwards (in revenge
of Amuratb his death) cruelly flaini otherfome alfo
reporting that he died in Prifon. Amuratb after
this great VkSkory, With lbme few of his chief
Captains taking view of the dead bodies, which
without number lay on heaps in the field lite -
Mountains; a Chriftian Souldier, fore wounded
and all bloody, feeing him, in ftaggering manner
arofe (as if it had been from death) out of a heap
of flain men, and making towards him, for want
of ftrengdi fell down divers times by the.way as
he came, as if he had been a drunken man; at
length drawing nigh onto him, when they whickguarded
the Kings Perfon would have ftayed him,
he was by Amuratb himlelf commanded to come
nearer, luppofing that he would have craved his
life of him. Thus die half dead Chriftian prefc
ling near unto him, as if he would for honour
lake have killed his Feet, fuddenly ftabbed-him

Adurath, Third King of the Turks.
Anranth *° ^ e ^ >ottoni OI " h* s belly with a (hort Dagger,
fail, which he had under his Souldiers Coat-; of which
Wound chac great King and Conqueror prcfently
died*. The name bF this man, '(foe his .courage
worthy of eternal memory) was Miles Cobelitz,»
who before lore wounded, was (hordy after in
the prelence of Baja&et cut into (mail pieces.
The Turks in their Annals ibmewhat biherwife
report of the death of AmWraih; as thatthis Coielitx,
one of the Delpot.his Servants, in time
•of the Battel, coming to Amurath as a fugitive,
offering him his Service, and admitted to his
prelence, in humbling himlclf to have killed his
Feet fas the barbarous manner of the Tufksas)
1 tabbed him into the belly and 1b flew him;
being himfelf therefore (hortly after (asisafore-
(aidj in the prelence ofBajazct moft cruelly he wen
into (mall pieces. Whereupon ever fuice that
time, the manner of the Turks hach been, and
yet is, that when any Embaflador or Stranger
is come to kils the Sultan his hand, or otherwife
to approach his Perfon, he is as it were for honours
lake, led by the Arms unto his prelence, betwixt
two of the great Courtiers; but indeed by lb intangling
him, to be fu re that he (hall not offer
him the like violence, that did this Cobelitz, unto
Amurath.
The dead-body of Amurath was preiently with
all lecrecy conveyed into his Tent by the Baflaes
and Captains present at his death; whether Bi*i
jastet was alio brought-with an Enlign before him,
as the Succeflbr in his Fathers Kingdom, His
younger Brother Jacup, firnamed Zetebi (or the
Noble; yet ignorant of that had hapned, was by
the great Bauaes lent for, as from his Father;
who calling no peril, but coming into his Fathers
Tent, was there preiently by them ftrangled, by
the commandment of Baja&et, as moft Hiftories
report j howbeit the Turks Annals charge him
not therewith. This wis the beginning of the
moll; unnatural and inhumane cuftom, 'ever unce
holden for a moft whollbme and good policy
fEmperors.
FINIS.
among the Turkifh Kings and Emperors, in the
beginning of their Reign moft cruelly to Mafia*
ere their Brethren and neareft Kinlmen, fb at
once to rid themlelves of all fear of their Com*
podtors.
This Amurath was in his Superftition more
zealous than any other of the Torkifh- Kings » a
man of great courage and in 'all his Attempts
jprcanate * he made greater (laughter of his Enemies,
than both his Father and Grandfather > his
Kingdom in Afia he greatly lnlarged by the
Sword, Marriage, and Purchale * and tiling the
Difcord and Cowardile of the Grecian Princes, to
his profit, liibdued a great part of Thracia, called
Romania, with the Territories thereto ad/oyning,
leaving unto the. Emperor of Conftantinople, lictle;
or nothing: more in Thracia,'thia the Imperial •
City it felf, with the bare name of an Emperor,
almoft without an Empire » he won a great part
of Bulgaria} and entred into iSww&, Bofna, and
Macedonia ;,-he was liberal, and wichall fevere ; of
his Subjects both beloved and feared", a man of
very few words, and one that could difiemble
deeply. He was (lain when he was threelcore
ana eight years old, and had thereof reigned
thirty one, in the year of our Lord, 1390. His
dead body was by Bajazet conveyed into Afia,
and there Royally buried at Prufa, in a fair Amurath
Chappel at the Weft end of the City; - near unto buried at
the Baths there j where,- upon his Tomb lieth Ins Prafa -
Souldiers Cloke, with a little Turkifli Tulipanr,
much differing from thole great Turbants which
the Turks now wear. Near untoithe feme Tomb
are placed three Launcesy'with three Horfe-tails
faitrjed at the upper end of theiri-j' which he
uled as Guidons in his Wars > a thing in ancient?
time not ftrange. There ftandeth a Caftle with*
a Tomb, made in remembrance of .him, in the*
Plains of Coffova, where he was'(lain and his
Entrails buried i which giveth occafion for fome
to report that he was there alio hirnlelf enterred.
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The

140
Bajazct
inv'adecb
Servia.
The L I F E of
BAJAZET,
« The Firft of that N A M E,
The FOURTH and moft UNFORTUNATE
Kins of thelTurks.
B4]4X*ty or as the Turks call him, Bdajit\
of his violent andfierce Nature iimamed
Gildermpv lightning, iucceeded his-Far
ther Amurath in the Turkifh Kingdom,
I -- his younger Brother Jacup being Aran"
gled immediatly after bis Fathers death, as is before
declared. He in the firft year of his Reign
invaded Servia, and there befieged Craiova, a
City of the pefpors > whereunto the Silver Mines
of Serum (not the leaft caufe of that War} belonged.
Which City was yielded unto him, upon
condition, That the Chriftian Inhabitants might
with Life and Liberty depart. Who 'were no
iponer gon out of the City, but that by bis
commandment, they. were all -moft cruelly flain
by his men of War, for that purpofe fent out
after them. At this time he alio won Ufcupia,
with divers other Caftles in the Country near
unto Cratova.
Sigifimmd at the fame time King of Hungary (a
young Prince of great hope, and Brother to Wencejlaw,
then Emperor or the Weft ) advertiied
from the 'Servian* his Allies and Confederates,
of'theie proud proceedings of ~B'aJdz,et;' by his
Embafiadors fent of purpofe, requefted him,
That as he was a juft Prince, ana wiflied to
live in quiet with his own, to defift from, doing
of fuch open wrong, and from invading
of fuch Countries of his Friends, and Con&dtf-.
rates, as be had no right in. Which Embafladors
fb fent, Bajazet detained without anfver,
until fuch time as he had overran, a great part of
the pefpot his Country, and therein donejwiiat|
he thought good. Then calling the laid Embafladors
unto rum into one of the ftr0ng.Towns|
which he had in every corner filled with ibis
own Souldiers, told them that they might there
lee,, that lias Right both unto that Town and the
reft by him taken, was good enough, &r. as
much as the very Walls acknowledged the iame;!
And fo giving them leave to depart, willed diem
lb to tell their Mailer. Which his proud anfwer,
fc$ the fame Embafladors reported unto the
young King, no lefs troubled him, than if open
War had by diem been denounced unto him,
feeing the Tyrant (as it fhould. ieem) pretended
Right unto wha'tfbever he could by force get >
li^rertheleS, being hirafelf not yet weir ietled in,
his Kingdom, and in doubt of the contrary
Faction (that altogether liked not of hislS-j
lection into Bungay for their King J he was
I glad at that time to put it up, and fp to hold hkrt>
I fclf content.
The next year, Bajaz-et by'Ferifet-Beg, took gerrja tbe
the City of l r idma, with many other RxoajL fttaitimt
Towns and Caftles in Servia, and afterwards intdiibf
returned to Hadrianoph. But whilft that he that B *' azct * *
raged in Europe, the Caramanian King invaded
I and fpoiled the Frontiers of his Countries in
Afia\ which although hfc was not then at leiiure,
he forgot not afterwards to revenge to
1 the -full. At the feme rime Enrtmfes, Lord Goj
'vernor of the Marches of his Kingdom in £cn
pope towards Gtecia, departing from Serai ( where H
he then lay; took the* City of Sitm in Thejk
\ folia. And Fertfes-Btg, not content to have H
taken Viding fas is aforelaid). pafled over the
great River of Danubim, and grievoufly fpoiled
Vdacbia\ from whence he returned loden with.
.a; great Prey. This was the firft rime (that I
read of) that the Turks ever pafled over
the River Danubiw. At this rime alio Jegides '
Bajfa entred the Kingdom of Bofna, from
whence he carried a great number of Caprives
to Hadriample, where Bajazet fpent that
Winter.
In the beginning of the next Spring Bajazet
pafled over Hellejpontta to Vrufa, where he
I built' a fair Mahometan Temple, with a Col*
l&dge," and an Alms-Houfe -, which works finiihed,
he returned again info Europe, and built a
Monaftery at Madrianople 3 and fo returned again,
into AJia\ leaving Temurtafes, Begler-Beg ( or his
[Viceroy) in Hadrianoph. After he was come
into Afia, he laid Siege tjo the ftrong City of
Philadelphia in, lydia, which' was at that rime pukfcj.
the. ~only n Cfty iin the lejHer Afia, yet hold en phia beby'the
Chriftiaijs in the midft of the Mabome- Rigid by
tan Princes; foa now was the Greek Emperor " J i azet «
by tlje Qtl>pmoif[ Kings.,and. the odier- Turks
quite driven eut of the \effar jAfia. In the bc-
. ginning of this Siege, Bajazct gave ftrait rcommandment
to hs Souldiers, That, they fhall not
apoilr Qp.-huFj^any thing! in the Country belonging'
to'die Citizens i i hoping by fuch feigned
courtefie to make triem the more willing
[ to yield, themfelves untoi his Obedience. But
djfappqinted of his expectation, and finding
them refolded to hold it out unto the laft, he #
: for^wirJi gave out contrary commandment, not
to fpare any thing they could waft or deftroy
which was accordingly by his greedy Souldiers
H performed.
,

Fulminis in meresn- ccleri rap it aamisva- motu-
XQCU'GCftZ/CtfLCS, fidei pacts et imp aliens.
Jteyni /fadrianopo Urn Sedes siA-t legit ut elset,
To/set ut-Europaz/unaere reg-na suts.
Conslantinopolirn a&mina. olsidione pitiaat:
larn trracas vanaspe sifaspondet opes.
c&flO'prceAetsua tcrpa, catenis
rictus, et in, ca-ztea. pro bra. pudenda suAit,
JFaitAle/s, and/ur-io-us SzjflCJ'CL^Ott+S'~drmes nan? fly,
~dffnri/t as TA-unsier&olts dart tAroi^A tnt sAy;
In^rfdrianvple p fonts- his AatujAty Throne, H
To rnaAe all' -European Cronrnts /us onrne.
Constantinople tnrice nritn si&aes tires,
*>

Ba/afcet, Fomft
performed. After long Siege,, the Citizens feeing
Jhe Country aboutthem utterly wafted, and them-
(elves unable longer to indure, and out of all
hope of rdieE yielded their City 1 unto the plealure
of Boja&et. It is written by fbme, that tflis
famous Ciry was not befieged without the confeht
of the Emperor of Conjhnmoik', a(jfboiling
the Coflrftry before ffffa ^he tye'nt 1 .
Where 'rite Vayvod toifeprefs" his Wrj&Vniet *r
flam; fb that at laft fee" Was glad", to. file* for
Peace, which ti& ootaifted, by wbmtftirf^ Unafclf
to Bajazet, and yisl&iig td pay turn a yearly
Tribute.
Whiift Zajazei Was thus W^ffi$}(j$& Theflilia
lieWs was brought unto* him,, That' t'hei 'OrlrruuE invaded
Of the Weft with a Fleet of Callj|s did great h Bajaharm
alongft the Coafts of his j&dmuudns in zct "
•A/ia. In revenge whefec , rj he entered' with lxis
Army into TbeJJaly, dettroyihg all the Country
unto TbeJJalonica; in which expedition he took
J the City of Neapotts in Greece, and fodnmna in t/d£-
I folia, and after that returned into Afa, where he
fjient that Winter.
In the beginning of the next Spring, he with
a great Power palled the Strait of Cattipolis to
Hadrianofkj, intending to have invade'd Hunga­
ry. But as he was upon the way, it chanced
that a Conftantinopolitah Spy was by the Turks
intercepted, with Letters from the Greek Emperor
to the King of Hungary, giving hini
Warning both of the Turks preparation and
coming. By which Spy Bajazet alfo.'underftood
of another Mefieriger before le/it into tiitngary
for like purpofe. Whereupon Temundfes /then
, his great Lieutenant in Europe) penwadeu him
i to defift -from his intended Wars in Hungary,
and to befiege the Imperial City of Constantinople,
as a thing of more honour, arid Jefs" dan­
ger; the City'being already f as fie u^I, ancj;
as iff truth it was) lurrounded wit'rTtl^e Tiiriim,
Provinces; bringing in Philadelphia ( but a few
years before won ) for example of,the like exploit.
Of whole Couhiel Bajazet. liking well,
returned With his Army, and fliortly after came
Peace with him as it pleafed him to grant' it. and fate down therewith before Conjtantinsple,
As Baj'a was making this expedition' into ' I laying hard Siege thereunto, firft by Lahdi and;
Caramania, another young Mahometan Prince, after by Sea, with his Gallies feht from CaBt-s
the Son of Prince Germ tan, came unto him jolts. Whicli hard Siege conphued (as moft con/Ianwith
one of his chief Councillors, and were Hiftories report) the fpace or eight years» in tinople
both by him lent Pri(bners over the Strait to which long time he drave the Emperor Ema-. ii£j>tyears^
the Caftle of Ipfala, where they lay in durance nuel Paleologus to that Strait, that he was glad g^fl^
many years after. Thus Bajazet having op- to leave his City, and himfelf in perlbn to crave
prefled and wronged moft of the Mahometan ' Aid of Wehcejldus the German Emperor, and
Princes, the Succeflbrs of Sultan Aladin in the Charles the Sixth the, French King, and other
lefler Afia, at laft returned, again himfelf in Chjiftiarr 'Princes alio. At which time the Citriumph
to Prufa.
| tizens were at length brought
The Prince of Mentefa, who "for fear of Saj'a"
%et was fled out of his Country, as is aforefaid,
had* new incited Cutrun Bajazet; Prince
of Caflamona, with a great power to invade
that fide of Bajazet his Kingdom which bordered
upon Mm. Which Bajazet undemanding-,
gathered a great Army to go againft this Mahometan
Prince. At which very time the Vayvod
of Walacbia, hearing of Bajazet his troubles in
Afla, with a ftrong Army palled over Danubim
into thole pans of Serbia and Bulgaria that
were by the Turks as then pofleffecf; where
he lpoiled the Country, and flew great numbers
of the Turks i making Mahometan Saints
and Martyrs by heaps; for fb the Turks account
all them whom the Chriftians kill in their
War; which done, he-retired back again into
V'dacbia, carrying with him alio many of the
Turks Prifonere. Bajazet' thus at once invaded
both in- 40* and Burt*?; deferred Ms Wars
purpofed againft the Prince of Puma; until a
more convenient time, converting- his Forces
againft the VaUekims. Wherefore paffing over
the Strait to Hadrianpk,h&&nt his-Army from
1 to fuch extre-
! miry, that they were even at the point to have
; yielded up the City > and happily had fb done,
had not Sigifntund King of Hungary (affifted
1
with a great Army of the French, arid other
voluntary Chriftians alrnoit out of every part'
of Chrifrendom, to the number of an hundred
and thirty thoufand, under'the leading of John
\ Count of Nivers, and after Duke of Burgundy )
[ for the relief of the befieged Emperor, palled
over Datiutfius into the Turkifh Dominions i
and thero'having recovered ^W/zw, 'with certain
other ftrolig Holds in Bulgaria, laid Siege to 2v7-
•cobolst; out of which "City the Turks oftentimes
fallied, arid gave him many an hot sJUraufh*
It is-reported, That the young King SigjfmmU
beholding the greatnefs of his Army, in his
great jollity hearing of the coming of the Turks
Army, fliould proudly fay, What need we to fear
the Turk, who need not at all to fear /he falling
of the Heavens ? which if they Jhomd fall, yet were
we able with our Spears and Haldberts to hold
them up front falling upon us. But Bajaz,et underftanding
what Spoil the Hungarian King, had
^) rfladcin "his'late gained 'Countries? arid of the
Siege

I4»
Bajazet, Fourth King of the Tutkfc
Siege of Nieopolis; commanded die Ladders and
other great provifion now in readineG for the
fcaling and affaulting of the City of Confiantinople
, to be. burnt, becaufe they (hotild not
come into the hands of the Chriftians; and fo
raifing -his Siege,, marched with a right puiffant
Army to Nieopolis, fending Euremfes before, of
purpofe to intercept fbme of the Chriftians,
thereby to learn, the State of their Camp and
Army. But they hearing of his coming, lowell
looked to themielves^hat he with flume returned
to his Mafter as he came, without any one Priibner
taken. "Which thing much troubled Bm~
jazet, as fearing he fhould have to do with a
wary Enemy. Sigifinund • underftanding of the
approach of Baja&et, leaving a iufficient Power
for the continuing of the Siege, role himfelf,and
with the reft of his Army went to meet his
proud Enemy. Of whole coming and approach
Bajaz>tt underftanding, divided his Army into
two parts; and being now come within the
fight of the Chriftian Army, made fhew but of
the one half, keeping himlelf dole in fecret
ambufti not far off with the other. The Chriftians
deeming themfelves (as they were) far
more in number than the Turks which they
few, divided their Army alio into two parts,
purpofing betwixt them to have inclofed the
Turks. Of all the Chriftians that were there
prelent, the French defired to have the honour
of the firft charge to be given upon the Turks,
and in their heat upon good hope let forward
C the Hungarians, with a great part of the Army,
not yet let in order ) and lb began the Battel;
where betwixt them and the Turks was fought
a right cruel Fight, and in a little time many
thousands flain. But this Fight had not long)
endured, when Bajaz,et with the other half of
his Army fuddenly ariling, came on with fuch
violence, as well became fits ftrname of Gildenm
or Lightning» and fo hardly charged the French,
that they amazed at the mddainefs of the dan?
ger, and. opprefled with the fury and multitude
of the unexpected Enemy, flood at the firft as
men difmaid; but feeing no remedy, encouraging
one anothe% valiantly fought it out until
they were almoft all either flain or taken Priibners;
ftill in hope to have been relieved by
the Hungarians and the reft. In this hard con.-,
fliet divers of the French Horiemcn . having for-l
faken their Horfes, fought on Foot, as their
manner wasi which Hones running back with-j
out their Riders, upon the Hungarians, cauled
them to doubt that the French were quite
overthrown > wherewith difmaied, they without
further coming on, all turned their backs and
fled, in fo great haft, as that it booted not the
King or any other great Commander to go
about to ftay their Flight. The French thus by
their ^ too much haft overthrown, the Turks
purfuing the Hungarians and the reft of the Chrifti­
ans, made of them a great Daughter i of whom
alfo many were drowned in the great River 'Da-\
nubius. At which time alio the Turks took £o
many Prifoners, that it was thought every feveral
Turk had his Prifoner. Kjng Sigijmund
himlelf, who but a litde before had defpifed
even the falling of the Heavens, had' then alio
undoubtedly fallen into his Enemies hands, had]
he not in a little Boat by good hap got over Danubhu;
nop unlike another Xerxes, who having
covered the Seas with his Ships, and with a
world of men pafled over into Greets, was afterwards
by the ftrange change of Fortune,
himlelf alone in a fmall Fifher-Boac glad to gee
back again into AfU. Sigijnumd being thus got
over Danubius, and fearing die violence of the
Hungarian* for the lofs of the Battel, fled by
Sea into Tbracia unto Confiantinople, from whence
he failed unto the jfland of the Rhodes;. and*
from thence failing through the *s£goan and
Ionian Sea, landed at length at Dalmana; and
io having wandred from place to ukce, tofled
with many Fortunes, after eighteen Months long
and painful travel returned again into Hungary*
Where he found clip State of his Kingdom in
his abfence much troubled, the contrary Faction
in the mean rime having made choice of
Ladijlaus King of Naples for their .King > who .
was even then with a great Army going to
have taken pofleflion of the Kingdom, had not
Sigifinund in good time by the help of certain of
the chief of the Hungarian Nobility prevented
him. In this Battel, called the Battel of Jifcf*
polis, were of the Chriftians twenty thousand
flain, and of the Turks threefcore thouland.
The Count of Nivers the French Kings near,
Kidman, Was there taken Prifoner, with three
hundred great Commanders more ;, where after
he had endured great contumely and reproach'
in the prelence of Bajazet, he was commanded
to make choice of five other of the Captains,
fuch as he liked beft, all the reft being cut in
pieces before his Face,, and he with the other
five left alive, lent Prifoners to Prufa, from
whence they were afterwards ranfomed for twohundred
thouland Ducats. This bloody Battel
of Nieopolis was fought in the year of our
Lord 1396.-.
. Baja&et after this great Victory, having wox* - fl
thily relieved his befleged City, returned again tlnopie
to the Siege of Confiantinople, laying more hard- tkt (tconi
ly unto it than before, building Forts and Bui- tlmt j t ^
wares againft it on the one fide towards the-jjjj^j
Land; and paffing over the Strait of Bofphorus,
built a ftrong Caftle upon thjat Strait over
againft Confiantinople, to imgsach Co much as
was poffible, all paflage thereunto by Sea. This
wait Siege (as molt write) continued alfo.
.two years, which I fuppofe by the circumftance
of the Hiftory, to have been part of the aforefaid
eight years. Emanuel the befieged Empe*
mr VJc^ried with thefe long Wars, lent an Em-
b^iiador to Bajaxat to intreat with him a Peace;
which BajaxAt was the more willing to hearken
unto, for that he heard news, that Tamerlane
the great Tartarian Prince intended fhortly to
war upon him. Yet could this Peace not be
obtained, but upon condition, that the Emperor
fliofild grant free liberty for the Turks to dwell
together in one- Street of Confiantinople, with
free exercife of their own Religion and Laws,
under a Judge of their own Nation; and further,
to pay unto the Turkifh King a yearly Tribute
of ten thouland Ducats. Which di(honourable
Conditions the diltrefled Emperor was glad to
accept of. So was this long Siege broken up,
and presently a great fort of Turks -with their
Families were lent out of Bitbynia, to dwell in
Confiantinople, and a Church there built for them ; •
which not long after was by the Emperor pulled
down to die ground, and the Turks again driven
out of the City, at fuch tame as Bajazct
was by the mighty Tamerlane overthrown and
taken Prifoner* **,
Bajazat in the beginning of his Reign, prelendy
after the death of Lazarus the Defpor,
flain in the Battel of Cojfova, won pact ofServia,
(asis aforefaid) the other part being ftill
hbiden by Lazarus his Son, called Stephen the
Defpoti who about, this- time lent an honourable
Embafladbr to Bajarut with loving Letters,
and Royal Prefents; by which Embaffador
alio the old Princeis Lazarus his Widow, offered
hex

Bajazet, Fanrtb King af the Turks;
her fair Daughter De&ina, Stephens Sifter, a La­ and Friers ferve as well; but not ib learned in
dy of incomparable Beauty, in marriag to him, | your Laws and Cuftoms of your Kingdom, as
if it fiiould pleafe him to vouchlafe his Hand­ are thole in your Dilplealure. if they be
maid (as fiie termed her) fo high - a place. learned (laid Baj.az.et) why do they then con-!
This Lady was long before promiled him, whilit fcrary to their Learning, pervert Juftice, and tako
his Father Amurath yet lived*. Of this Enibal- Bribes ? There is a good reafon for that too C fold
iador Bajazet was very glad, but especially for thejefter.) What reafon? (laid the King.) That
the fair Ladies lake; which being known to the can he that there ftandeth by better toll than
Princeis her Mother, and the Delpot her Bro­ I, C laid the Jefter, pointing to Ala BaJJ'a ) who
Bajtzet ther, (he was forthwith honourably lent to Baja-
mtrritlh
forthwith commanded by Bajazet to give the
zet, and lb to him with great Solemnity and Tri­
Hftfpioa
reafon j with great reverence before done,'
the fair umph (hortly after married. Of all his Wives {hewed, That thole Judges lb in dilplealure, were
Vai/gbter he held her deareft, and for her ftke reftored not conveniently provided for, and were there­
of Laza­ to her Brother Stephen the City and Caftle of
rus tbt
fore unforced many times for their necefiary
Semendre (otherwile called S. Andrew) and Co­
Dtjpot,]
maintenance to take rewards, to the ftaying of
lumbarium in Servia; Ihe allured him to drink the due courle of Justice. Which Bajazet un-
Wine, forbidden the Turks by their Law $ and, I derftanding to be true, commanded Alts BaJJ'a
cauied him td delight in fiunptuous Banquets', to appoint them covenient Stipends for their •
which his Predecenors, Ottoman, Orehanes, and maintenance, and forthwith granted their par­
Amurath, never uied.
don. Whereupon the BaJJ'a let down order,
As the Turkim Kingdom grew in greatnels, That of every matter in fiiit exceeding one
fo Corruption, the Canker of great States and thou land Alpers, the Judge mould have twen­
Commonweals, increaicd Mkewile; but elpecity Alpers Fee for Judgment; and for every
ally in the Men of Law, and Judges of his Writing and Inftrument out of the Court,
Courts. Wherewith Baja&et grievoufly offen- twelve Alpers* which Fee they yet take in
ded, commanded divers of the fame Judges to thole Courts at this day.
be apprehended, determining (to the terror of
Not long after, Bajazet in his fury lent for
others) to have executed them j whole dan­
certain of his Captains ana Commanders of
gerous Eftate was much pitied, and alio fa­
bis Men of War, with whom he was for lbme
voured of Aht BaJJ'a, and other the Kings great
final! occafion grievoufly oftended, intending
Councilors; yet for lb much as Bajazet was of
in his rage to have put them all to death,
a furious Nature, and in. liis anger dangerous to
which was with him no great matter. Thele
be Ipokcn unto, none of them diajrft adventure
Captains being brought before him, the Coun­
to in treat him in their behalf; no not Mu BaJJ'a,
cilors feeing him all in Choler, lot looking on
Charatfytt BaJJ'a his Son, lometime Judge of Vrufa,
the ground, hanging down their Heads, as the
although he were a man in fttch fpecial Favour
manner of the Turks is, not daring to look him
with him, that he was therefore of the Common
in the Face, nor to lpeak'a good word for
People not anly reverenced, but as the King
them. When iuddainly the aforcfaid tAEthic
himlelf honoured.
pi an Jefter ftept forth, earneftly requefting the
There was at that time in the Court ane^E- King, not to {hew them any favour, but to
tbiopian Jefter, who under lbme covert pleaiant execute diem prelently, as Villains and Trai­
Jeft, would many times bolt out that to the tors ; railing upon them, as if he had known
King in his greateft heat, which his graveit fome great Fault by them. Bajazet thinking
Councilors durft not once lpeak to him of in he could have accuied them of fome great
fccretj thfc Jefter, Alk BaJJ'a, requefted to de­ Crime, became of-his earneftnels, asked what
vice ibme means to intreat with the angry King reafon he had fo to exclaim againft them. Rea­
in the behalf of thefe Judges » promising to fon (quoth the Jefter) became the Knaves be
give him what he would reasonably defirej if good tor nothing; and they lay that Tamerlane
he could appeale the Kings Difpleaftre.. The is with a great Army coming againft us, if you
*A£tkioput» without fear undertook the matter, will hut take up an Enfign in your Hand, and
and prelently putting upon his Head a rich I go before you with a Drum, I will ftrike
Hat all wrought over with Gold, after the up filch a -terrible march, and you make Inch
manner of the Turks Embaffadors, and fitting a dreadful Ihew, that we mall need none of
himlelf with other Apparel better be teeming thele bad Fellows or their Souldiers in the Field
an Embaffador than a Jefter; thus attired pre­ to get the Vi&ory over our Enemies. This consented
himlelf*before the King, with a great ceit of the Jefter ftruck fiich a melancholy ima­
counterfeit gravity. Whereat Baja&et marvelgination into Bajazet his Head, that he flood
ling, asked him the catide why he was fo gay. muling a great while as it were in a deep ftudy;
I have a requeft unto your Majefty (laidhe) at laft having well confidered die drift of the
and wifli to find Favour in your light. Bajazet Jefters Speech, and his fury now fomewhat a£
more defirous than before to know the matter, fwaged, granted them pardon, which they looked
asked what his requeft was. If it ftand with not for.
your pleasure (laid the Jefter) I would feign
go as your Embaflador to the Emperor of Con- This 'eAlthtopian Jefter/ Bajazet upon a time
ftantmople, In hope whereof I have put my fiat unto the old Queen his Mother, to bring
lelf in this rcadincls. To what purpoie would ft her news of the good foccels of his Wars againft
thou go ? ( feid Bajtzet) To crave of the -Em­ the ChrilHans, for that {he had lb defired; who
peror Claid be) fome forty or fifty of his old coming unto her, was by her commanded to
grave Monks and Fryers to bring with me fa­ fit down, flie began to demand of him, how
ther to the Court. And what ftiall they do the King her Son did, and of the fiieccls of
here? Cfeid Bajazet) I would have them pla­ his Wais. Whereunto he anlwered, That he
ced {laid the Jefter j in the rooms of the old did very well, and had won from the, Chrifti­
doting Judges, whom you intend (as I hear) ans a great Country, and greatly inriched his
to put to death. Why (faid Bajazet) I can Souldiers. But after a little more talk, the Queen
place others of my own People in their rooms. Mother defirous to hear again die good news,
True (laid the Ethiopian) for gravity of look ( or elfe after the manner of fome, which think
and countenance, and fo would the old Monks nothing Efficiently told, except it be told an
hundred times) asked him again, how the King
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144
Bajazet, Fourth King of the Turks.
her Son did, and hdw he fped in his Wars. Where-
•unto he anfwered every word as before ; _but
asking him the third time the very lame queftion,
how her Son did? Doft thou ask me lb often
(laid the ^/Ethiopian ) how he doth ? Bre Catfbpe
(O Whore, faid he) thou haft brought forth
a Son like a Divel, who roaming up 'and down*
doth nothing but burn and deftroy the World
where he comcth. Whereat the Queen crying
out, up' ftarted the *ALtbiopian; and betaking
himfelf to his Heels, was never more afterwards
leen.
In the Wars which Bajazet had againft Si-
Tcmurta- gjfmund^ the Vayvod of Valacbia had given aid
f«, Baji. to tne Hungarian King; wherewith Bajazet be-
£Tt*t Lieu- * n 8 offended, determined now at lengt-h to be
tenant in revenged; and therefore intending to make War
Afla,Mty* upon the Valaebian Prince, left Temurtafes his
^''jf & great Lieutenant at Ancyra in Alia, and lb palled
JJ/,' over HeUeJpmus himfelf againft the Valachians.
•/Can- Upon whole departure, Aladin his Sifters Son
mania.. the young King of Caramania, with a great
Power came luddainly in the night to Ancyra,
and took Temurtafes Prilbner; who then feared
nothing lels, than in time of Peace to be fb
lurprifed, and carried away in bonds into Caramania.
But when he underftood that Bajazet
had ended his Wars in Valacbia, and was with
Victory returned to Prufa, he fearing his heavy
indignation for fb great an outrage, prelendy
releafed Temurtafes out of Prilbn , apparelled
him richly after the manner of that Nation,
craved pardon for the wrong he had done him,
and let him at liberty to go whither he would,
and withal lent one of his Noblemen with great
Gifts and Prefents to Bajazet, to make his excule
in the belt manner he could •> unto which
Embafiador Bajazet ( yet in choler) would not
give audience, or iiiffer him to come in his
fight; but at the lame time levied a great Army
to invade Caramania* Which Aladin underftanding,
and now out of all hope to appeafe this
mighty Enemy, levied all the Forces he could
in his own Kingdom, and withal entertained
all the Mercenary Souldiers he could get, intending
to try his Fortune in the Field, as a
man ot Valour, rather than to be thruft out of
his Kingdom like a Coward; and io in readinels,
hearing of the coming of Bajazet, met him
upon the way, and at a place called Aczac gave
him Battel v but being too weak, he was overcome
and put to Flight; in which Flight his
Horle Humbling, and he falling to the ground,
was there before he could recover himfelf, taken
by his Enemies which had him in chafe, and
lb brought bound to Bajazet v his two Sons MHhumtt
Beg and Alts Beg, being taken in that Battel
alio, were lent Prilbners to Prufa.- Aladin
himfelf was by Bajazet s command delivered to
his Enemy Temurtafes; who in revenge of the
wrong he had before done him, prelendy cauied
him to be hanged > which when Bajazet underftood,
he feemed very lorry that he had fb
put him to death; for that he was his own
Sifters Son. Bajazet following the courfe of his
Victory, won Iconium, Larenda, Nigde, widi all
•the reft of Aladin his Kingdom. About this
A mafia tune towards SebaFtia, where the Citizens Had a IW
tie before deprived Cafi-Burcbamdm of his Government,
for his Cruelty, and placed his Son
in. his ftead; but in Ihort time no lels weary
of the Son * than before of the Father, they
with j like inconftancy lent word to Bajazet;
That if he would come that way, they would
yield unto him the City; upon whole approach,
Cafis (his Son) for fear fled out of the
I City, to Prince Nafradm his Brother-in-Law.
After whole departure, the Citizens according sdaftttf
to their promife, delivered the City unto Baja- dtlhtired
I zet at his coming, wherein he left Solyman his ''P*'**
eldeft Son Governor. And fb having' in this
alio, Amafia the great Metropolidcal City
yielded un- of Capadocia, was by the Prince thereof delir«Bija-
vered unto Bajazet, being too weak himfelf to
***• defend rhe lame againft the force of Cafi-Burcbanidm,
Prince of the great and ftrong City
of Sebafiia, his Enemy > now grown to be a
man of great Power in that part of Afia, and
had lollicited the Sultan of Egypt to aid him
againft Bajazet. Whereupon Bajazet returning
from the Conqueft of CIMMMM, led his Army
z "*
notable expedition conquered the Kingdom of
Caramania-, and taken the great Cities- of Ama-
Jia and Sebaflia, with moft part of Capadocia, And
all that part of Afia which the Turks Call 2ta»
mika Afiatica, he returned to Prujk and there
wintered.
The next Spring, Bajazet hearing that his
old Enemy Cutran Bajazet Prince ot Caft.amma
and Pontus, was dead, came to Cafiamona with B-a;fet
a great Army ; which Isfendtar ( Cutrun Baja- hvadttb
zett Son, and then Prince of that Country) Isfcndiar
hearing, fled out of the City of Synop, a little p' *f
City upon the coaft of the Euxive j from whence „/ amo *
he lent an EmbaiTadpr to Bajazet, humbly re*
quelling him, to fuller him to have that litde
City, as his Servant to live in, (which he was
lure he would otherwile beftow upon feme other
of his Servants) and not to feelf the innocent
blood of. the Son for the Fathers offence. Which
his requeft Bajazet, moved with pity ^eafily
granted; yet neverthelefs took from him Cafiawont,
with the greateft part of bis dominion
in Pontus, which he gave to his Son Soljman.
At the lame time .he Yioiendy opprefled the
Prince Germean, and took from him the Cities
of Defpotr-polu and Hitrapolis, with all the reft
of his Dominion. ,
The Prince of Mmttfia, long before driven
out of his Country by Bajazet, (as is before declared
) and having all this while made his abode
at Caflamona, doubting now of his own iajfetyy
after the death of his good Friend Cutrun Baja'
zet, in rhe Habit of an Hermit fled to the great
Tartarian Prince Tamerlane.
Bajazet returning to Prufa, there built a magnificent
Mahometan Temple j during which work
he with great Superftition forbore drinking of
Winej repofing himfelf with die Company of
grave and learned men, and the adminiltration
of Juftice; whereby he greatly won the
Hearts of his Subjects, and bad now 1b inlarged
his Kingdom,that all Kings and Pfmces bordering
upon him flood in great fear of him.
. It fortuned about this time, that Aehmetes King
of Bagdat ( or New Babylon) and Eiracum, with
Jofepbm Niger King of Colchis, inforccd With
the violent incurhons of Tamerlane and his Tartars,
for fafeguard of their Lives were glad to
flie into Syria: where they being dilcovered,
were both caft in Prilbn by the commandment
of the Egyptian Sultan, who then commanded
over Syria: from whence they afterwards hardly
efcaping, fled tp Bajazets Court. Where
after Aehmetes had ftaid two months, he by the
aid of Bajazet recovered rhe poffefliqn of Eiracum
part of his own Inheritance. Jofepbm the
other Mahometan King having tarried in Bajazets
Court eight Months, at length procured
him to invade die Dominions of die Egyptian
Sultan; in which expedition he mightily prevailed,
and having llain die Eg) pi tan Sultans General,
and dilcomnted his Forces, took die City
of Majaty or Melstine in Armenia, with Diorige,
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Bajazet^ Fourth King of the Turks.
Derende, and Bexene, taken from the turcomans,
ahd Ipoiled all the Country thereabouts, from
thence marching with his Army toward Erz-
Wmf-' nitzane, the Prince thereof called Tachretin met
him upon the way, yielding ^ his City and
Country into his Power; which Bajazet pre*
fently gave to Jofepbm Niger > who after he
had fix days enjoyed this new Government,
finding the People unwilling to be governed
by him a Stranger, lurrendred the lame again
into the Hands of him that gave it. Whereupon
the Citizens of Erznitzane humbly requefted
of Bajazet, That they might be again
• governed by their old Prince Tachretin, now
- his Vaflal. Which thing he at their earned
requeft granted; but taking his Wife and Children
as a Pledg of Loyalty, lent them away to
Pruja, where they were all not long after made
away.
When Bajazet had now many years thus
\W)iMabt' mightily prevailed againft theChriftian Princes
**#** in Romaniaj Bulgaria, Bofna, Thejfalta, Valacbia,
Afi«
ftie unto
Tamer*
lane for
•gid.
C «L ^nd other places of Europe, as is before declaprjlfid
by re d, and inflamed with inlatiable Ambition,
Bajizet, / not tell whether all were fo as they had re*
ported of Bajazet, or not, but that he well knew
him to be a very zealous King in letting forth
of the Mahometan Religion » and that he had
therefore made great Wars upon the-Chriftians,
in which godly caufe (he laid) perhaps they
had refuled to affift him, or elle had given,
hint lbme other greater occafion of offence, to
him unknown; For I can hardly believe (laid
he ) that ib great, and religious a Prince- as he,
would without ju'ft and iufhcient caufe,.offer
iuch violence as you complain of, efpecially
unto you his Neighbour Princes, and of the
lame Religion with himfelf i neverthelefs, vvhat-
Ibever I intend concerning your requeft (laid
Tamerlane) I will lend firit an Embaflador unto
him, to underftand more of him and his
proceedings, before I refblve upon any thing *
with- which anlwer Jie willed them until then
to hold themfelves contented. But as. Tamer-'
lane was about to have dilpatched his Embaflador
to Bajazet, he was advertifed, that Achmetes
late King of New Babylon, and Jofepbus' King
of Colchis, both by him driven out of their
had in worfe manner opprefled the' Mahometan Kingdoms, having broken out of Pri/bn from
dijgttifid Kings and Princes of Afia (of whom lbme the Sultan of Egypt, were now come to Baja­
Hit ma were jjy j,jm Hain, feme driven into exile, lbme zet bis Court, to crave his. aid and affiftance;
imprilbned, and otherlbme brought into fuch
r wherefore he deferred to fend his Embaflador,
lubjedkion, that they lived as it were but at his I fulpecting that .Bajazet incited by thefe two'
Devotion,) and was now grown to that great­ I exued Kings, would firft in their quarrel beness,
that in the Pride of his Heart he flood gin to make War upon him. But not long
in fear of no man, but was ( as he thought) after, underftanding that they were both again
a terror unto the World, having under his departed from his Court, as is before declared i
obeifance great and large Dominions in Europe, he then difpatcht his Embaflador to Bajazet /
but far greater in Afia.', it fortuned that di­ with many rich Gifts and Prefents > courteoufly.
vers of thefe miferable and difcontented Maho- requefting him, the rather for his lake to deal
tan Princes, by great fortune, as if it had been kindly with thefe poor Mahometan Princes, his
by appointment, to meet together at the Court Friends; as alio with the Greek Emperor Ema­
of the great Tartarian Prince Tamerlane, whether nuel his Ally, for whom he was now become
they were fled for Relief and Succor. The I an Interceflor unto him. Some report alio,-
Prince Germian Ogli, after long imprifbnment in that he betides this, requefted to have, the two
the Cattle of Ipfala in Europe, brake Prilbn, and aforefaid Mahometan Kings of Bagdat and Colchis'
with MJfar-Beg his great Couniellor and Pri- delivered unto him; and withal feemed not a
ibn-Fellow, conlbrted themielves with a Com­ little to diflike of Bajazet-his proceedings againft
pany of loytring Companions, roaming from the Turcomans his Friends. But Bajazet being a
place to place, delighting the Country People Prince of a great and haughty Spirit," and un-
with their Apifh Toys; in which Company he accuftomed to hear of .any thing that fitted
paned HeUejpontus, as a Bearward, and at length not his humor, highly offended with this Em-
with much ado came to Tamerlane his Court; baflage, in great Icorn reje&ed Mbl Prefents by
whither the Prince of Mentefia was come before Tamerlane lent onto him, and fpecially certain
in the habit of an Hermit (as is aforefaid) Garments which Tamerlane after: the manner
with his Head and Beard fhaven; Aidm Ogli of thole Eaftern Nations,had in kindnefs amongft
palling through the Country as a Pedlar, with ether things lent him; willing the Embaflador
a Pack at his Back, camo thither alio; the to bid his Mafter meddle with his own matters^
Prince Tachretin as a Servingman, came attend­ and to prefcribe Laws unto his own Subjected
ing upon the Prince fendiar; who came alio, and not unto him, with whom he had nought
but in lbme better fafhion than the reft, as an to do > and to fend his Rags for Prefents unto
Embaflador from lbme other Prince. All thefe his Inferiors, and not to Princes of greater
poor Princes, with divers others in like mifery, Power and State than himfelf. Adding therem
fhort rime arrived at Samarkand (Great Tamerlane
his Court ) every one particularly complaining
of his own Private grief, and altogether
earneftly requefting that mighty Prince to
take upon him their defence, and to revenge
the wrong done unto them by the Turkiih Tyrant
Bajazet. Whole- pitiful complaints,much"
moved the Noble Tartarian; but elpeciaHy the
long and wrongful imprilbnment of Germian
Ogli; and the pitiful complaint and moan of
Tachretin, who had of late loft his Wife and
Children by tjhe Cruelty of Baj azat, . Yet in
this matter of fo great and important confequence,
Tamerlane made no great, lhew of his
forwardnefs, (although he was by Nature in
nothing more delighted, than in relieving of
the dittrefled, and chaftifing of the proud J but
coldly anfwered thefe Princes, That he could
1
unto many other words full of defpight and
diidain, afford ing him no better Stile than tho
plain' name of Tamerlane ; calling him the HuP
band of a Whore, if he met him not in tho
Field; and wifhing unto himfelf again, to take
I unto him his thrice divorced Wife, after flie
had been polluted by another man (as the
greateft difhonor that might be) if he failed
to meet him wherefoever he durft to dare
him Battel. Which proud anlwer of the Turk*
by the Embaflador reported unco Tamerlane,
and aggravated by Aj0/la (a Chriftian of the
Race of the Genowaiej, born at Capba, and then
one of the greateft Counsellors about him, and
the Greek Emperors great Friend) was lb
evil taken by him, that all other things let
apart, he refolved to go againft the Turk, and
to take in hand that War, as of all other the
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146
Bajazet, Fourth King cf tbeTwks.
fitteft for the increafe of his Honour and Glory.
Befides that, he thought it not in reafbtt fit
for the Greatnefi of the Tartarian Empire, to
fuffer fuch an unquiet Neighbour to grow
great; as ftill encroaching upon other the weak
Princes confining to him, and adding Conquefts
unto Conquefts; and yet never the more contented,
might in the end prove dangerous unto
his own Eftate and Sovereignty; a common
care to fuch as be themfelves great, and mounted
up unto the higheft degrees of Worldly Honor,
to have in Jealoufie and Diftruft the ftddain
ruing of others near or farther off, as perilous
or difgraceful to themielves, or their Eftate i
whole growing Greatnefi they therefore leek by
all means to hinder ; as did now the mighty Tamerlane
the proceedings and increafing of the
great Otboman King, BajaKeth and the rather
being continually prickt forward fb to do, by
the Pollicitation of the Greek Emperor Emanuel,
the other opprelTed Mahometan Princes, and by
the great. Captain Axatta (as is aforefeid) a
the World/, which he then filled with the glory
of his Name. Mofli Hiftoriographers report him
to have been poorly born, of bale and obfcure
Parents; and fb himfelf alio in his Youth to
have lived as a poor Shepherd or Herdfhun
in the Mountains; where contorting himfelf
with other fturdy Companions of like quality
and difpofition, Rich as there lived by robbing
of Merchants and other Pafiengers, he became
a mafterful Thief amongft them; unto whom!
other fuch leud Mares dayly ftill more and
more referring, he in fhort time grew (asthey
fay ) to that greatnefi, that he is reported to
have been ot luch power, as never man but
he ever yet came unto. A matter almoft incredible;
for albeit that the Roman Empire,
yea and this great Empire of the Turks foj
with feme others, had their beginnings not
much better or greater, the one under Romulus,
and the other under Otboman ; yet grew they
not as on the fuddain, in their times to any
lie bafe
\opinitnt
mm hivei\
canctming
\tbt Birth
[and Rifing
of Tamcfunc
Chriftian; of Whom for all that Tamerlane him-|
felf, a Mahometan, for the great Fidelity, Valor
and Vertuc he found in him, made no final!
reckoning, but was contented even in his greateft
and molt weighty Affairs to be by him advifed,
did iking of no man for his Religion w ha tlbever,
fb as he did worfhip but one only God,
Creator of Heaven and Earth, and of all that
therein is; being himfelf of opinion, That God
m Effence one, and in himielf immutable, without
change or diverfity; yet for the manifesting]
. of his Omni potency and Power, as he had cre-
"diw- atet * m £ great luftre ( neither was it poffible for them
of ji> final! beginnings fb to do ) but by many
degrees, and- that in long time * every of the
fecceeding Princes, according to their Fortunes,
adding fomething to their State, before it could
be made great; whereas he ( by their report >
contrary to the courfe of things both natural
and civil (which from their fmall beginnings
grow to no notable perfccVton or greatnefi, hut
by degrees, and that in the long revolution of
time), taking his beginning of nothing?, grew
Timer-
upon the fuddain to be a burthen and terror
l>ne his
epin
unto the World. Wherein our late Historiogra­
conctrni
phers feem too much to have followed the re­
h^ world iundry kinds of People, much port of the Turks, who by him brought low,
fity tf fa. differing both in Nature, Manners and Condi-
and their Kingdom almoft in one Battel fobtiiins.
dition, and yet all framed to the Image of himverted,
report nothing fitnply of him j but in
felf ', fb was he alio contented to be of them
what they may, detracting from his worthy
diverfly ferved, according to the diverfity of|
prailes, wrongfully charge him with many utw
their Natures and Manners* lb that they worflupt
truths, not concerning his Parentage only, but
none other ftrange Gods, but him alone, the
even in the courfe of his whole life alio, making
Maker and Creator of all things; which was the
him (as they would have the World to believe.)
caufe that he fuffered the ufe of all Religions
firffc to have been a very abject among men»
within the Countries ihbje& to his Obedience,
and then for his inhumane Cruelty .a very
were they not raeer Atheifts, Idolaters, or Wor-
Monlter in Nature, or ( as it was long before,
ihippers of ftrange and vain gods.
but more truly laid of another great one much
Neither was proud Bajazet as one ignorant of like himfelfj a Lump of Earth tempered with
the Power or Purpofe of Tamerlane, in the Blood. Which incredible Reports concerning
mean time idle, but Ml profecuted his good lb great a Monarch, I lift not to follow, as too
Fortune for the inlarging of his Empire, and full of dishonour, especially whereas others of
increafing of his Strength » wifely deeming (as no lefs credit thaft they, with far more modefty
the truth was) whatfoever Meffages were lent and greater probability report of him the greateffl
to him from Tamerlane, to be no other than honour that may be. ije was (as they and
meer Threatnings and Forewarnings of liis more the others alfb fey ) born at Samaveha the
dangerous Purpofes and Defigns againft him chief City of the Zagataian Tartars, plcafently Tafner-
and his State; which he was lb far from fearing fituated upon the River Jaxartes; his Father lanefeaas that to provoke him the more, he fpared
\nourably
was called Zain Cham, or as feme others will, dtfutndtd.
no intemperate Speech, which might move Og, Prince of the Zagataian Tartars, and of the
him to Wrathi wifhing ( as it mould feem ) Country of Saebetay (lbmctime part of the fa­
for nothing more, than to meet him in the mous Kingdom of; Part hi*) third in defcent from
Field, there to try the fortune of a Battel Ztngit, the great and fortunate Leader of the
with him. So weak is our forefight of our For­ Tartars, before in the former part of this HiftOH
tunes to come, and the reach or our Under- ry rcmembred. Which Og, as a Prince of a
Handing for the apprehenfion or declining of peaceable Nature (accounting it no lefs honour
the fatal doom even prefendy hanging over our quietly tot keep the Countries left hint by his
Heads •> as that we oftentimes through ignorance rather,' than with much trouble and no lefs
moft defiroufly wifh for thole things which are danger to feek how to enlarge the feme) bong
onto us the chief occafions of our utter ruin lived in moft happy reft with his Subje&s no
and overthrow.
lefs happy than himfelf; not fb much feeking
But here before we enter into farther Di£ after the hoording up of Gold and Silver (things
courfe of the mortal War betwixt thefe two of that Nation not regarded) as contenting
lb puiuant Princes, it (hall not be much from himfelf with the increafe and profit of his
our purpofe to ftep a little out of the way , Flocks of Sheep, and Herds, of Cattle; then,
to fee what this mighty Tamerlane (of whom and yet aHb, the principal revenues of the Tar­
fo many Princes craved Aid ) was, who living, tar Kings and Princes; which happily gave 00
held the Eaft in fuch awe, as that he was com­ cafion to feme, ignorant of the manner and
monly called, Tbe Wrath of God, and Tmor *f
cuftom

cuftom of thole Nothern Nations and Countries,
ihe caufe tQ ^5^1 ciiem an tor Shepherds and Herd£
JStn. men; 'and fo alfb to have reported of this
ftruibim mighty Prince, as of a Shepherds Son, orHontf
it btvt Bian himfelf; vainly meafuring his Nobility by
bun
Sbipbtrd
or Htrdfmtn.
Timerlane
gar*
rittb ib:
mMihitf
and Hrir
Ba;a£et,~* JF**rf£ Kfag of \be Turks.
the homely manner of his People and Subjects,
and not by the Honour of his Houfe, and. Heroical
Vertues, fuch as were hardly to be found
greater in any Prince of that or other former
Ages. His peaceable Father now well ftricken
in years and weary of the World, delivered up
unto him (not yet paft-fifteen years old ) the
Government of his Kingdom, joyning unto nim
two of his moft faithful Counfellors, Odmar
and ARt to affift htm in the Government of
his State ("retiring himielf unto a fblitary life, the
more it quiet to ferve God, and fo to end his
days in Peace;) which two his trufty Servants
and grave Counfellors he dearly loved whilft
they lived, and much honoured the remembrance
of them being dead. The firft proof of his
Fortune and Valour, was againft the Mufcwite,
for {boiling of a City which had put it felf under
his protection* and for entring of his Country
} and for proclaiming of War againft him;
whom he in a great Battel overthrew, having
(lain five and twenty thousand of the Jtfufco.vites
Footmen, and between fifteen and fixteen
thousand Horfemen, with the lols of fcaree
eight thoufand Horfemen, and four thoufand
Footmen of his own. After which Battel he
beholding fo many thousands of men there dead
upon the ground; was fo far from rejoycing
thereat* that turning 1 himfelf to one of his Familiars,
he lamented the condition of fuch as
commanded over great Annies, commending
his Fathers quiet courfe of Bib; accounting
him happy in feeking for reft, and the other
moft unhappy, which by the deftruction of their
own kind, fought to procure their own glory,
protecting himfelf even from his Heart to be
grieved to fee fuch fad tokens of his Victory.
Wjth this overthrow the Mufcovite difcouraged,
fent EmbafTadors to him for peace, which upon
fuch honorable Conditions as pleafed him,
to fet down, was by him granted, and fb the
Peace concluded. Now the great Cham oi Tartar
ia (his Fathers Brother) being grown old,
and out of hope of any more Children, moved
with the Fame of his Nephew, after this Victory
fent him divers Prefents, and withal offering
him his only Daughter in marriage, and with
her to proclaim him Heir apparent unto, his
Empire , as in right he was, being his Brothers
Son, and the Daughters not at ail iucceeding
in rhofe Empires. Which fb great zti offer
Tamerlane gladly accepted, and 10 the marriage
was afterwards with great Triumph at the old
Emperors Court folemnized', and he proclaimed
Heir apparent unto that great Empire. Thus
wfojtfjiiUi was Tamerlane indeed made great, being ever
Tartar v. a ^ er this marriage- by the old Emperor his Uncle,
and now his Father-in-Law, fo long as he
H lived, notably (imported, and after his death
fuccecding him aho in that fo mighty an Empire.
Yet in the mean time wanted not this
worthy Prince the envious Competitors of thefe
his lb great Honours > infbmuch, that whilft by
the advice and perfwafion of the old Emperor,
he was taking in hand to make War againft
1/ the great Kmg of China (who had as then
gon tar beyond his bounds ) and fo was now
well onwards on his way, he was by the Conspiracy
of Calix ( a man of greatelt Power and
Authority in the great Cham his Court) almoft
chruft out of his new Empire; Calix with a
right puiflant Army having already ieized upon
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the great City of Cambalu, and the Citizens alfb
generally favouring tliofe his traiterous proceedings,
as difdaining to be governed by die Za i
g-at'tan Tartar, For redrew whereof, Tamerlane
was enforced with the greatelt part of his Army
to return, and meeting with the Rebel ( who
then had in his Army fourfcore thoufand Hofte,and
an hundred thoufand Foot) in a great and
mortal Battel (wherein of the one fide and of
the other were more than fifty thoufand men
flain ) overthrew him (though not without the;
great danger of his own Perion, as being there
himfelf beaten down to the ground) took him
Prifoner, and afterwards beheaded him. Which,
ib dangerous a Rebellion, with the death of the
Traitor, and the chief of the Confpirators reprefled,
and his State in the newnefs thereof
by this Victory well confirmed, he proceeded
in his intended War againft the great King of
China; brake down the ftrong Wall, which the
Cbinoies had made four. hundred Leagues long
betwixt the Mountains, - for the repreffing of
the incur/ions of the Tartars, entred their Country,
and meeting with the King, leading after,
him three hundred and fifty thoufand Men
(whereof there were an hundred and fifty
thoufand Horfemen, and the reft on Foot J in
a great and dreadful Battel, with the flaughrer:
of fixty thoufand of his Men, overcame him,
and took him Prifoner i whom for all that he
if in-the courfe of fo great a Vietory wifely
moderating his fortune) fhortly after fet again
at liberty; yet fb, as that having before taken
from him the one half of his Kingdom, and
therein left Odmar his trufty Lieutenant,- with a
fufficient Power for the retraining of the proud
King, if he fhould again begin.to raife any new
ftirs > and withal impofed Juch other conditions
as pleafed himielf, with the yearly Tribute of
three hundred thoufand Crowns, . he well provided
for the alluring of thofe his new Conquefts;
and fb in Triumph returned with Victory
unto the old Emperor his Father-in-Law at
Cambalu, not a little glad to fee both him and
his Daughter, who had in all thofe Wars ftill accompanied
Mm. But leaving him, now thus by
Birth great, by his Fortune greater, but by his.
Vertue greatelt of all, fas able now to draw
after him almoft the whole Power of the Eaft )
let us again return thither from whence we have
for the better knowledge of him, thus with him
digrefled.
The War againft the Turkifh Sultan Bajazet
fas is aforefaid) by Tamerlane refbived upon, he
lent Axalla the great Captain to his Country
of Sachetay ( called of fome Zagat ay ) to give
beginning to the attempting of his Forces from
all parts; to the end, that with the firft of the
Spring he might fet forward for the relief of fb
many diftrefled Princes, and the abating of the
Pride of fo great and mighty a Tyrant as was
Bajazet. Now had Tamerlane procured from the
great Tartarian Emperor, his Uncle and Fatherin-
an hundred thoufand Footmen,- and
fourfcore thoufand Horfemen, hoping to have
as many more from Sachetay his own Country,
befides the Lords that for his honours fake would
accompany him in that his fb honourable an
expedition, from whom he made account alfb
of fifty thoufand men more which they would
bring .unto him, and divers other great Applies
which he expe&ed from other places alfb; wherewith
he doubted not well to perform what he
.had fo honourably determined to take in hand,
for the abating 01 the Oiboman Pride, for which
and other fash ;Kke,, he was (as he would oftentimes
fay ) by God himfelf appointed; fb taking
V 1 his

Bajazet, Fourth
King ofthejbujj&s.
his leave of the old Emperor his Father-in-Law,
and of the Princefs his Wife ( then left: behind
him for the comfort of her aged Father ) he departed
from Cambalu towards Samarcandjhe place
of his' Birth and Seat of his Empire; leaving behind
him the Forces brought from the great Emperor
his Uncle, to come after him to Q&ar'a, j
where he had appointed the general meeting
of his Army. At which time amongft other
Princes that thither brought or fent their Supplies,
the great Mufamite being requefted fo to
do, promised to fend him fifteen thousand Horfe,
with a certain fiim of Many, and leave for his
Army to pais through fo much of his Territories
as fhould be neceflary; all which he afterwards
performed unto Tamerlane-, being glad that he
did let upon others, rather than on himfelf>
and that lb great a preparation fliould fall upon
them, whole greatnefe was as dreadful and dangerous
unto him as unto any other. All the
Earth almoft at that time being allonifhed at
the iuddain greatnefs of this Othoman King, and
the happy fucceis he had in all his Wars» not
the leaft caufe that moved Tamerlane to oppofe
himfelf againft him, deeming it much better to
go and let upon him in his new Conquefts,than
to ftay until he therein fetled, were come nearer
to him, and fo fhould debate the quarrel within
his own Empire, to his dammage. A good and
found relblution; firfr. in that it tended to the
deftructlon of the Enemies Country ; and then^
that if any thing fhould fell out otherwife with
him than well, his Country fhould not thereby
.receive any fuch aftorufhrnent as if the danger
were nearer or within the Bowels of the lame.
Now in the mean time that Tamerlane lay at Samarcand,
Axalla the great Captain zsaA. Tamer*
lane his lieutenant General, had affembled all
Ttl tt *^ e Army at Ox.ara. Whereof Tamerlane under-
Axalla in landing, fent for him to Samarcand, to confer
greet ere- with him about the letting forward of his Army.
dit with for although he were itill accompanied with
SI? er by him conquered; whereof he there received
news, and there caufed his Army to be paid,
and a general Mufter thereof to'oe taken He
had alio there news of the aid the Mufcavite
did lend him '•> and caufed an infinite quantity
of Victuals, and moft part of his Furniture to
be conveighed by the Caff ion Sea, being a great
commodity ana egfe to his Army, which
marching by Land, was of necefficy to pal?
Ibme twenty Leagues through places defHtutc
both of Victuals and Water. Tamerlane ail the
way coafting along the Sea fhore, pin~ec| the
time in hunting, his Army not coming near
him by ten Leagues, which was lb great, that it.
extended it felt full twenty Leagues. Coming
to the River of Edel% he ftaidat Zarazacb whilij:
his Army paiTed the River at Mecbet, and two
other Bridges which he had caufed to be made
for that purpofe. Now the Orcadians, and Gear*
giant, hearing of the approach of Tamerlane wiclji
•his huge Army , by their EmbafTadors offered
him all the help and afltltance they could in
his journey as he palled that way. Thcfe Gir
giant were and yet are Chriflians, a great and
warlike People, of long time Tributaries unto
the Greek Emperors; and afterwards fomerimes
Tributaries, and fomerimes Confederates unto
the Perfians » but always Enemies unto the Turks,
by whom of late ( and. in our remembrance )
but cipecially by Amuratb the Third, they to?
gether with Ibme part of the Ferfian Kingdom,
have been grievoufly oppreffed, as in the prcr
eels of this Hiftory may appear. Of thefe
warlike People, glad of Tamerlane his coming for
the repreffing of the Turks, Axalla drew great
numbers unto the fervice of his Prince, who
not a little efteemed of them, being all tall men,
very beautiful, of great Strength and Courage,
and withal moft expert Souldiers, as having
oftentimes refilled the Power of the Otboman
Kings, by jeaibn of the advantage their Country
affordeth them, being very rough and. hard
" great renowned Princes, yet were they nobody to come 'into. By thefe kind People, Tim**
in companion of Axalla, whole found Counfel lane was in every place honourably entertained,
had won him iiich credit with his Lord and and his. great Army with all necoflaries plenti­
Mafter, as by his advice he did all things, and fully relieved, la palling through which; Coun­
without him nothing; which his lb great Autry and the reft as he marched, he took iiich.
thority and Favour with his Prince, wanted not order with^his Souldiers, that none of the People*
the envy of the Court, but that his great Ver- whereby he paffed, were any dung by them
tues, and rare found Cour-cefie ("in lb great For­ injured; in&mnch that if a Souldier had taken
tune} together with lb many worthy fervices but an Apple, or other thing of like value front
as he had done, fupported him againft the ma? any man, he died therefore, fb fevere were his
lice of the lame, tie by the commandment of Commands. It is reported that one of his Soul-
Tamerlane, leaving the charge of -the Array at diers, .having taken a little Milk from a Country
Ozutra, with the Prince of Tbanais, another of Woman, and fhe thereof complaining, he caufed
Tamerlanes great Captains, came himfelf to Sa­ the laid Souldier to be prefently killed, .and, his
marcand, and there at large difeourfed with him, Stomach to be ript; where the Milk that he had
about the eftate and order of his Army. And of late drunk being found, he contented the
fhordy after, departing with Axalla and the reft Woman, and fo lent her away ; who had other-
from Samarcand, for to go to OzMra the place wile undoubtedly died for her falfe accuiarion,
where all his Army met; being come thither, had it not fo.appeared. Which his fo great £>
entred into a great confiiltation with his moft verity, and in other like cafes, was of many. ac-.
expert Captains, about the taking of his journy counted for extream Cruelty; yet was it indeed
and conducing of his Army; as whether it the wholefom preservation of his Army, being
were better to lead the lame by the Coafts of fo great, as that it was thought .almoft impoffi-
the Muscovite dire&ly towards Capba, or elfe ble to have found iufficient V i&uals for the re­
on the other fide of the Caff tan Sea by the skirts lief thereof; whereof for all that, there was no
of Perfia; where after long difeourfe and fun- want, either of any thing elfe neceflary for die
dry opinions wich their reafbns delivered, it ufe of man, Us Camp being ftill as. A moft
was at laft refblved (although the way were the populous and well governed City, ftored. with
longer) to pais by the Mufcwite, fo to come to all manner of things; whereunto both Artifi­
t\\Q Georgians, and to Trebizanda, and from thence cers and Merchants, from far Countries referred
to enter into the Otboman -King his Country. with their Commodities and Merchandife, .as
And fo letting forward from Obara, he came at to feme famous Mart; and the Country Peo­
length to Marank, where he ftaied three days ple, without fear from every place brought in
looking for the Forces which Prince Odmar their Country Commodities,, for which they re­
fliould lend him from C£;>w, not long before ceived prefect Mony,. and fo in iafety again
departed.

Bajazet, Fourth JKi»g of the Turks.
H9
departed. So marching on*;he at length came
was fure to die therefore himielf; and to turn
to Bacbkbich where he ftaid to refrefh his Army
his Back upon the Enemy, was no leis,danger
tit num- eight days, and them again took a general mufter
than to run upon his own death. Now the
Jwrf T«- thereof, wherein were found Cos moil write)
Turks in Garrifbn at Sebtfiia, feeing tnele Tar'
put mcrhnei four *Ar- hundred thoufand Horfe, and fix hundred
tart flit Horfemen marching towards she Gity£
mj. thoufand Foot; or as ibme others that were
making little account of them» .for that they
there prefcnt affirm, three hundred thoufand
were not in number many,, iifticd out for to
Horfemen, and five hundred thoufand Foot of
meet them; where they were ib fiiriou fly charged
all Nations. Unto whom he gave there a gene­
bythefe few Horlemen, that th$y were glad to
ral Fay; and as his manner was, made unto them
retire, and for haft to. fhut part of "their own
an Oration, informing them of fiich orders as he
meq out of the City, left the Eneniy following
uroul>the|
Valour and Experience of rhis Souldierf, being
all men of long time well trained up in the Wars.
At which unexpected news, Tamerlane greatly
rejoyced >• yefi without infolence or vaunting, but
rather with the countenance of fiich an one as
judgedithetevents of Battels: to be ( as they are)
always doubtful; faying fometunes, that a Snail
number well conducted, did oftentime carry
away the Vidory from the confiifed multitude,
Three days he iraied at BAyfahweb} and caofed
his Seuldiers continually to march forward,
which at :Garga and Ctiuftrig paffed over the
River Euphrates;, which he did the rather to
maintain his Army upon the Spoil of the Enemy,
in attending his coming, than upon himfelf» or
his Allies. AH the Cities that yielded unto him
by the way as he marched, he favourably re*
ceived; the-other that refufed to fubmit Eheraielves
unto his Obedience, he ufed with all
extremity j efpecially the great and ftrong City
of Sebaitia, where certain of the? Forerunners
of his Army were by the Tacks there in Garrifon
cut offand JQain, and the' Gates of the City
as it were in. contempt of him, ist wide open;
wherewith Tamerlane offended, ient out certain
of his Tartarian Horfemen, commanding the®
on g" his Dilpleafiire, fe to bear themfelves
againft their Enemies, as that .he might at his
coming eidier find the City .taken, or the Gates
thereof ihut againft him.; for be had his men at
fo great command, that no danger was unto
them move dreadful than this Difpleafure, neither
did he punifh any:.thing fo leweijely as
Cowardiie» imbmuch, that if in his diiport of
hunting ch& wild Beait, any did for fear give
S?ay to the- i^n .or -Bear*; and flew him net,
iiat '
his Army, and fate down before the City, wfc
he lay ftill ieven days, not making fhew of
pere
a
violence at alls the Defendants becaufe
any
the
City was of great Strength, all that while chinking
that he had intended by long Siege to diftrefs
the (fame, and the more became of his
long lying frill. But about the eighth dayy the
Walls and Towers of the City in many pieces
underlined, -were fuddainjyIOoverthrown,
ronjy x^"'' a " " ^K> overtnro wn,
leaving large breaches for the •Enemy to enter.
Wherewith the Turks in the City difinaied, s Sebaflii .'
MMJmvef&Ye& their fives i, 55235? - r* T»mcr-
LIWUI nnr ouc M C as t&e lanel
Turks report) being entred the fcity9~jprnr
rnanded„ a great number of deep Pits to be
digged, and all the People of the City, without
reipeA of Age, Sex, or Condition, to be thrown
into the fame, and there buried quick. Which
done, .the City was by his commandment utterly
rafed alfo, After that, calling unto him Mai*
caxa&jifs, the Governor of the City, whom ha
hadior that purpoie only fpared, he commandr
ed him, to go and tell his, Mafter what was
happened, to his ftrong City of Sebafiia, and
what Jig had there Jaimfelt fc&iy Of which
tragical a&ion, A&1*OXZMH havuig made trpei
relation unto Baja&tfi was by him demanded?
whether, of the two Armies he thought bigger
or..ftronger , for npw Bajaztt liad alfembled a
mighty Army of three hundred thoufand men,
or as jfome report of three hundred thoufand
Ho^&nen, and two hundred thoufand Foot.
Whereunro A4alcoz^ws having before craved pardon,
anfwered, that it could not be. but that
Tamerlane might in reafon have the greater
number, for that he was a Commander of far
greater Countries. Wherewith proud Bajaxat
offended; in great choler replied, Out of doubt,
the fight of die Tartarian hath made this Coward
ib 'afraid, that he thinketh every Enemy to • .*.-* -
be two.
Mojt of the La tine Hift ones report, that when
Tamerlane had taken Sebafiia, he put all the
men to the Sword, and bringing the Women
and Children into the Fields, without the City,
there over-ran them with his Horfemen, excepting
ibme few which were referved for Frifbners.
As alio that Baja&t there loft his eldeft Son
Ertbogrul ( of ibme called Qrtbobules) whofe death •
with.: thelofs of the City, fbmuch grieved him
(as it is reported) that marching with his great
Army againft Tamtrlanff and by the way hearing
a Country Shepherd merrily repofing himielf
with his homely Pipe, as he fate upon the fide
of a Mountain feeding his poorjFlock ; ftanding
ft^lagreat while liftening unto him, to the great A s^.
admiration of many, at laft fetching a deep figh, bird pun
brake forth into theie words i O happy Shep- top tb4 *
herd, which haddeft neither Ortkabuks nor Se- ^ ajaZCU
baftia to lofe > bewraying therein his own diF
contentment} and yet withal ihewing, "That
worldly BhTs confiftethnot fo much in pofleffing
of

150
Btyazfct, Fourth King of % ibi Turks.
of much, fubjeft unto danger, as joynmg in a.
little, contentment devoid of fear. Howbeit
the Turks themfelves reporting the taking of
Sebaftia, {peak not of Orthobults at all, but give
him loft fix years before, in the Wars againft Cafi
Bnrchaniden, and lieth buried by his Father at
ttufa. In this City of Sebaftia was loft twelve
thoufand Turks, Men, Women and Children,
as their Hiftories report. The reft of the Cities
all the way as Tamerlane marched, warned by the
deftruction of Sebaftia, yielded themfelves for
fear of like danger; the Citizens whereof he
courteoufly ufcd, elpecially the Chriftians, whom
he let at liberty, in relpect of Emanuel the Greek
Emperor, whom he feemed wholly therein to
gratifie. But he had not gon far into the Turks
Dominion, but that he was certainly advertifed,
how that Bajaz,et, with a great Army was coming
againft him, and now within thirty Leagues of
him; which caufed him after that time, to march
with his Army more clofely. ; Axalla leading the
purpofe fled, they (hsuld receive them, and lb
retire all together. He in the mean time with
the reft of his Power flood dole in a Valleys
near to a Wood fide, unfeen at all. Where
having differed two thoufand of the Enemies
Horfe -'(•the Vantcorriers" of the Turks'-Army)
to pals by -him, he following them in the tail,
charged -them home, the other which before
retired, now turning upon them alfo; lo that
the Turks feeing themfelves thus befet, and hardly
laid unto both before and behind, as men
dilcouraged fled; in which Flight molt of them
were (lain, and the reft taken Prifoners. This
was the firft incounter betwixt the Turks and
the Parthians; all the Prifoners there taken, were
by the Prince as a Pre lent lent to Tamerlane, and.
among the reft the Bajj'a of Natoliawho led thele
Troops; of whom Tamerlane earneftly demanded,
what caufed Bajaxet. ib little to efteem of him,
as to (hew (o great contempt of his Army, which
Vdntguard, lent forth Chianfon Prince of Ciarcan,
with four thoufand Parthian Horfemen, to get
knowledge of the Turks' Army, and where Bajaxet
lay, as alfo what Country that was beyond
Sennas, and if he could learn any thing
thereof, to make relation of it unto him. This
Prince of Crarcan' was Tamerlants near Kinfman,
a man of great reputation, and next unto
Axalla, in whole abfehee he had the commanding
of the Avantguard, his charge; who alfo
lent before .him another Parthian Captain with
five hundred Horfemen. So he had not ridden
ten Leagues but that he heard news of Ba.jaz.ets
coming, and having fiirpri&d Sennas, underftood
there the certain ettate of the 1 Turks -Army,
which was phen at Tataia, and lb marching
forward. Whereof Tamerlane certifiedjCornrnand 1 -
ed htm not to retire from that place, until lie
did lee the arrival of the Enemy, and thereof
to give him advertilement every hour; being
himfclf refblved to pais on no further:, as come
. to a fair large Plain,-and a Country of advantage
for the order of his Battel; for he knew
that his Army was far greater than Bajaz*ts,
and therefore he made choice of thole great
Plains. Yet for that his Army confided of divers
Nations, and withal- confidering that he was
not to fight againft the Chmois, a loft effeminate
People, (as of late) but againft the Turks, a
molt warlike Nation, and well acquainted! With
all manner of Fights and Martial Stratagems,
he thought it good to be well adviled' how he
proceeded againft them. Wherefore he prefentfy
lent for Axalla, with him to view the laid
place, and to have his opinion, Whether it would
be for his advantage or not, there to ftay i who
not raifliking of-the choice of the place, yet
adviled him alio to keep Sennas (b long as he
poffibly could; and lb lent word unto them that
were therein, upon the approach of the Enemy
to let fire upon the lame, and lb to withdraw
themfelves from thence, to the end that the Enemy
mould not have any defire to incamp
there, but come ftill forward near to thole Plains
where Tamerlane defired to fight, elpecially for
that he was ftronger in Horfe than Bajaz.et.
Thus the Turks ftill marching on, thought .to
have liirprifed feme of their Enemies in Sennas;
who as loon as they drew near, retired all, ex-
?CUKIB ces S^ n S ^ 0ms hundred left of purpofe to fire
detitibfo-. tfte . Town i who having performed the lame,
Uiit^fj retired of purpofe in great dilorder. Now the
with the Prince of Ciarcan had divided his Forces into two
Vmoftht parts> an< * gi v ^ n commandment to the firft,
''"£ AT- tftat as *°° n as tne he mould find ftrong enough to abate his Pride.
Whereunto the Bajfa anlwered, That his Lord
was the Sun upon Earth, which could not en*
dure any equal; and that he rather was aftonimed
to fee, how he from ib far had encerprifed fo
dangerous a journy, to hinder the fortune of
his Lord, in whole favour the* Heavens- (ashe
laid ) did bend themfelves to further his greatness,
and unto whom all die world fubjeeted. it
(elf i and that he committed great folly in going
about to refill the lame. Unto which (b
n>roiid a Speech Tamerlane replied, That he was
lent from Heaven to punifli his raflinefi, and
to teach him, That the Proud are hated tf God,
whofe promife it to finch down the mighty, and raife
«p the lowly. As for thy felf (laid he) thou
haft already felt- (althoughI pity thy railhap)
what the-Wlor of nay: Parthian Horle is againftthy
Turl^pi » and thy Mailer 1 have already
caufed to'Traife his Siege of Conftantimfle, and
GO look to his own things here in Afia* -Furthermore^
Tamerlane changing his Speech demanded,
If his Matter did come refolved to bid him Battel
i Allure your felf (laid he ) there is nothing
he more'idelireth j and would to God I might
acknowledge your grcatnefs, in giving me leave
to afEft my Lord at that Battel. Good leave
have thou, (laid Tamerlane) go thy ways and
tell thy Lord chat thou haft feen me, ana that
lie-(hall in the Battel find me on horfe back, where
he (hall fee a green Enfign difplayed. The BaJJ'd
thanking him, Iwore, that next unto his Lord
he" vowed? unto him his Service. And fb returning,
declared unto Majasut, how that he had
leen Tamerlane and truly reported unto him all
that he had willed him to lay; not forgetting
over all, to publifh his Courtefie and Bounty ;
who belides that he had frankly let him at liberty,-
had alio given him a very lair Horfe well furriiihed,
although he well knew he was to ferve
againft himfelf. Whereunto Baja&et anlwered
no more, but that he would (hortly make trial
of him, and that he well hoped before the march
were ended, to make him acknowledg his own
folly. The next day the two Armies drew
near together, and incamped within a League
the one of the other; where all the night long
you might have heard luch noife of Horfes, as
that it feemed the Heavens were full of Voices,
the Air did fo relbund, and every man thought
the Night long, to come to the trial of his
Valour, and the gaining of his defires. The Stj~
tbians (a People no left greedy.than needy)
talked of nothing but the Spoil; the proud Par-
•thiansy of their Honour; and the poor Chriftians,
y perceived the Enemies-to of their deliverance, all to be gained by the next
purfue the hundred Horfe that fb diibrderly of Days Victory; every man during the Night time
ipeaking

Bajaaet, Ftmtb Kmg watch returning unto his Pavillion.
and there calling bimfelf upon a Carpet, had
thought to have flept a while> but his Cares
not iuflering him fb to do, he then as his manner
was, called for a Book, wherein, was contained
the lives of his Fathers and Anceftors,
and of other valiant Worthies, the which he
• ufed ordinarily to read, as he then did; not as
therewith vainly to deceive the time, but to
make uie thereof by the imitation of chat which
was by them worthily done, and declining of
iuch dangers as they by their Rafhneis or Ovferfight
fell into. And afterwards having a little
ilumbred, he commanded AxaBa to be &nt for,
who forthwith came unto him, with divers other
great Lords and Captains the chief Commanders
of his Army; with whom after he had a
while coniiilred of the order of the Battel, he
mounted on Horfeback himfelf, and lent every
one of them to their own Charges, to put the
feme in readinefs. At which very inftant he
received News, that the Enemy inarched forward,
and came.to take his ground for the Bat'
151
certain light Horipmen, SMphians^JPjfnHfim aȣ
Adf*jcovites9 who ient out. as looie men,, hotly
skirmiihed betwixt tfie two Armies. Now was
Tamefiajn by an Eipy advertifed, that Bajaztt,
having Ipejbre given order for the, dfipo/ing of
[ his Army, was on foot in the midft of r.i?u ; ty>
thou land J*miz>aries, his principal men of War*
an4greareft Strength; wherein,he;meant.chat day
to fight, and in whom he had repofcd his greateft
hope. His Battel of Horfe was very fajr,'
amounting to the number of an hundred, audi
tORty thouiand Horfe, all old Souldier* The
Sulgin of Egypt having alio {$& u|w;o his Aid
thirty thousand Mamalukes,' all very good Horfe*njien,
with thirty thouiand. Foot. Sp that his
Arni,y marching all in, one Fron& in, form of an
Halt-Moon ( but not fe well, knit together as was
Tamjtrlanest whole Squadrons dire&ly followed
one another) feemed almoft as great as his;
and hi with infinite numbers of moffc horrible
Outcries ftill advanced forward; Tamerlane his,
Souldiers all the while ftanding faff, with great
iilence.
There was not poflible to be feen a more furious
charge, th%n was by the Turks given upooi
the Prince of Ciarcan, who had commandment
j ngE to fight before the Enemy came unto him*
I neither could haje been chpfen a fairer Plain,
tel; whole order of march Tamerlane was defirous
I and where the skilful choice of the. place was
to fee, that ib accordingly he might marfhal his
of leis advantage for the one or the, other.; bug
own. And having caufed;three thouiand Horfe-
that ^Btqerju&te had the River on, die left hand of
men to advance forward, with charge to begin
his Army, ferving him to feme fniall advantage.
the skirmifh, himfelf followed after to lodge
Now this young Princejflf C\a*can with his forty
every part of his Forces in iuch places as he had
thoufand Horfe, was in thjs firit encounter aImoit
foreieen to be fitted for his. advantage. Now
wholly overthrown} yet having fought light var
feeing the Jam-Varies march in a iquare Battel
Hantty, and entxed even into themidii; pi the Jo-
in the midit, and upon the two Fronts two great
wyvvi* f where the Perfon of Bajtztt was) put-
Squadrons of Horfemen, which feemed to be
ting them in difbrd er, was himielf there /lain.
thirty thouiand Horfe; and another which ad­
Bj ciarcao
About which time Axalia iet upon them; with the [lain,
vanced and covered the Battalion of the Jani~
Avanrguard, but not with like danger j for ha­
xaries ; he thought this their order to be very
ving pverthrown one of the Enemies Wings, and
good, and hard to be broken; and thereupon
cup, ijt all to pieces, and his Footmen coming
turning himfelf to Axalla, who was near unto
to jpyn w4th.nim, as tney had, been commanded,
him, laid, I had thought this Day to have fought
he faced the Battalion of the yantz,ariesT who
on Foot, but I fee that it behovcth me now to
Sgpt valiantly behaved tnendejves for the iafe-
fight on Horfeback, to give Courage unto my
ty of their Prince. This hard fight continued
Souldiers, to open the great Battalion of our Ene­
one, hqur s and yet you could not have feen*
mies. And my Will is, That my men-come for­
any feat ce red, but the one ft ill refojutely fightward
unto me as ioon as they may, for I will
ing againft tjie ptfeerV Ypu miglit there have
advance forward with an hundred and.
^en the Horfemen like Mountains cuih together,
Footmen, fifty thousand upon each of my two] and infinite numbers of Men die, cry, lament
Wings, and in the midft of them forty thouiand and threaten all at one inftant. Tamerlane liad pa­
of my belt Horfemen. My Pleaiui'e is, that after tience all this wyicp to fee the event of this ib
they have tried the force of thefe men, that {hey mortal a Fjght; but pejrcpiiVing his men at length
come unto'my Avauntguard, of whom I will tQ give grpuEtd, he ient ten thpuianji of his Horfe
diipoie, and fury thouiand Horfe more in three to join again, with the Gen thoufand appointed
Bodies, whom thou malt command; which I will for the Rerew^rd» an4 commanded; them to
affiit with eighty thouiand Horfe, wherein ihaij affift h|m at |uch time as he ihould have need
be mine own Peribn > having an hundred pf them; and at the -very ianie time charged
thouiand Footmen behind me, who (hall match hiinfei^ and made them to give him room; cau-
in two Squadrons» and for my Rereward I apfing the Footmen to charge alio, over whom the
lint forty thouiand Horfe, and- fifty thouiand Prince of Tlfapqis cpnjniancled, who gave a fu­
ootmen, who fhall not march but to my aid. rious onj^t upon the Battalipn of the Jaai&a-
And I will make choice of ten thouiand of my ritb wherein was yet the Peribn of Baja&et, who
beft Horfe, whom I will fend into every place had i^ftained a great ^urcleny Now iajax,et had
where I (hall think needful within my Army, id.hjs.Arrny a great number of Mercenary Tar-
for to impart my Commands. Over the firft taxit failed &efte*fgh with many thouiandsof
forty thousand Horfe the Prince Ciarcan com­ other Souldiers. taken up in the Countries of
manded •> over the foremoft Footmen was the the poor exiled Maioptetan Princes; in whoie
Ix>rd Syrups a Genoefe, Kinfman to Axalla, and juft quarrel, and the $rregk Emperors, Tamerlane
his Lieutenant over the Footmen, a Captain of had chiefly undertaken that War; thefe Tartar
Ihl greet great cftimarion; the Prince Axalia bis own rpa/ts and other Souldiers, feeing feme' thcif
Mad mortal charge confided of five Squadrons of Horfenien. Friends* ,an4 otherfbme their natural and loving
BMtflL kt~ Majazet his Army being alio both fair and great, Piincesinthe Arpiy of Tamerlane; ftricken with
'»'» B*.
jazec m}4 came bravely fell on forward towards jheir the terror of Diiloialty, and abliorring the CruTjracr-
Enemies, who ftirred not one whir from the , elty of ithe proud Tyrant, in the heat of the
hae. place they had taken for the Battel j except | Battel revolted from Bqjaztft to their own Princes;
which

Bajazet, Fourth
King ofthe Turks.
Which their revolt much weakned Bajazets Fortes.
Who neverthelefs with his own men of
War, efpeciaHy the Janizaries, and the help of
the Chriftian Souldiers brought to his aid from
Seroia arid other places OfEurope, with great
Courage maintained the Fight; nut the Multitude,
and not true Valour, prevailed; for, as
much as might be done by valiant and couragious
men, was by the Janizaries and the reft performed,
both for the prefervation of the Perfen
of their Prince, and the gaining of the Victory.
But in the end, the Horfemen with whom Tamerlane
himfelf was, giving a frefh Charge, and
his Avantgard Wholly knit again unto him* reinforcing
the Charge, he with much ado ob-
,. tained the Victory. Bajazet himfelf wounded,
unto whom he yielded himfelf, thinking
it had been Tamerlane '•> who for a fpace knew
him nor, but took him for fbme other great Com-
Bajazet mander of the Turks. Mufa (firnamed Zelebi,
and bis or, tbe Noble) one of Bajazet his Sons, with dis
" **uft vers others of Bajazet his great Captains,- were
fours. U ' *here taken alio; and amongft the reft, George
the Defpot of Servia, who notwithftahding this
misfortune, had that day gained unto himfelf
the reputation of a great and worthy Captain;
k ' infbmuch that Tamerlane even in the very heat
of the Battel marvelling to fee him and tlie'Swvians,
with the other Ghriftians which he had
brought to the aid of Bajazet, fb valiantly to
fight, faid unto fbme of the Captains that were
near unto him, See how coUragioufly yonder Re-
' ligious fight; fiippofing them by their ftrange
Attire to have been fbme of the Turks fupermtious
Votaries. But being now taken, and afterwards
brought to Tamerlane, he was .by him
courteoufly welcomed > but yet withal reproved,
for that he had fought for Bajazet againft him,
who was come in favour of the ChiSflaaa Ertiperor,
and the other poor opprefTed Princes,
fuch as the Defpot himfelf was. Who thereunto
boldly anfwered, That indeed et a lf° himfelf being afterwards brought
bnutbt unto Tamerlane as a Prifbner, and by him courtebtfon
Ta- oufly entertained, never (hewed any token of Subm
m on at a DUt
"h*^' '® ^» according to his proud Nature,
Ipridt. w ^ c ^ out fb (faid Tamerlane) fhalt thon be ferved. And
fb caufing him to be taken out of his pretence,
-turning unto his Followers, fiid, Behold a proud
and cruel Man, he defervech to be chaftifed ao H
cordingly, and to be made an Example unto all
the proud and cruel of the World, of the iuft
Wrath, of God againft them. I acknowledge,
that God hath this day delivered into my Hands
a great Enemy»• to whom we muft therefore
give thanks- Which he performed the fame
day; for the Battel was won at four of the f I
Clock, and* there was yet five hours of day-light.
The next day Tamerlane commanded the dead to •
be buried > where among the reft they found
the body of the Prince of Ciar.can, dead in the
midft of the Janizaries, where he lay inclofed
with their dead bodies, in token he died not onrevenged;
whofe untimely death Tamerlane for
all that greatly lamented, for he was his Kinfc
man, and like enough one day to have done
great fervice. Whole dead Body Tamerlane cauied
to be embalmed, and with two thou land Horfe • J
C and divers of the Turks Prifbners chained and
tied together ) to be conveyed to Samercand,until
his coming thither. All die other dead
Bodies were with all honour that might be, buried
at Sennas.
This great and bloody Battel fought in the
i year of our Lord 1397. not far from the Mount - I
Stella, ( where fbmetime the great King Mitbrydates
was by Bomfy the Great in a great Battel
I overthrown ) was fought from feven a Clock in
I the Morning, until four in the Afternoon; Victory
tall that while, as it were with doubtful Wings,
hovering over both Armies, as uncertain where
to light; until at length the fortune of Tamerlam
I prevailed. Whole Wifedom, next unto God,
gave that days Victory unto his Souldiers; for
that the politick tyring of the ftrong Forces of
Bajazet, A«a$ the fafeguard of his own » whereas
if he had gone unto the Battel in one Front, atfuredly
the multitude finding fuch ftrong refinance,
.had put it {elf into, confufioa* whereas
• this fucceffive manner of aiding of his men, made
them all unto him profitable. The. number of
them that were in this Battel flain, is of divers
I diverfly reported; the Turks themfelves reporting,
That Bajazet there loft the Noble Muftapb*
I his Soh, with two hundred thouiand of his men,
and Tamerlane not many fewer» and fbme other
fpeaking of a far lefs number, as that there fhould H
be flain of the Turks about thrccfcoie thoufand,
and of Tamerlane his Army not paft twenty thoufand.
But leaving the certainty of the number unto
the credit of die Reporters, like enough it is,
refpeft of his prefent ftate, prefamptu- that the Slaughter was exceeding great in fb long
oufly anfwered him unto whatfbever he demand- a Kglit, betwixt two fuch Armies as never before
H ed. Wherewith Tamerlane moved, told him, That (as I fuppofe) met in Field together:.
it was now in his power to make him to lofe By this one days event is plainly to be feen
his life. Whereunto he anfwered no more, but, the uncertainty of worldly things, and what
Do it» for that, that lofs mould be his greateft finall afiurance even the greateft have in them.
happinefs. Tamerlane afterwards demanding of Behold, Bajazet the terror of the World, and as
him, What made him fb proud,as to enterprise to he thought, iiiperior to Fortune, in an inftant
bring into hisSubjeflaon fo Noble a Prince as was with his itate in one Battel overthrown into the
the Greek Emperor ? he anfwered.Even the fame bottom of mifery and defpair; and that at fiiohj.
thing that hath moved thee to invade me, name­ time as he thought leaft,even in the midft of his
ly the defire of Glory and Sovereignty.- But greateft- Strength* ~ it 1 was three days (as they
wherefore then (faid Tamerlane) doft thou ufe report^ before he could be pacified, but as &
B fb great cruelty towards them thou haft over­ defperate man>ftill forking after death, and cal- '.
come, without refpecH of Age or Sex ? That did ling for it.;. • neither did Tamerlant. after he had
I (faid he) to give the greater terror unto my once fpoken with him, at all afterwards . cource-
Enemies. And what wouldft thou .have done with oufly ufe him, but as of a proud man caufed finall
me (laid Tamerlane) had it been my fortune I account to be made of him i And to manifeft that
to have fallen into thy Hands, as thou art now I he knew how- to punilh the haughty* m&de> him Bajizee
in mineP I would f faid Bajazet) have inclofed j to be fhackled in Fetters and Chains of Gold, $3?

Bajazet, Fourth King of the Tufts.
fide be fecn; .and lb carried him up and .down as dors looked for no left than to fall- into bondage
he paffed through Aft*; to be of his own Peo? to Tamerlane^ thinking .that, which they offered
pie fcorncd and derided. And to; bis farther to be lb great and delicate a Morfel, as that ic
dilgrace, upon Feftival days ufed liira for a Foot- would not be refuled, elpecially of fuch a conftool
to tread upon, when he mounted to Horfe > quering Prince as was Tamerlane; and that the ac*
and at other times IcornfuUy fed him like a Dog, ceptance thereof in kindnels and friendship, was
with crums fallen from his Table. A rare Ex­ the belt bargain they could make therein- But
ample of the uncertainty of worldly Honour, they received anfwer from this worthy Prince,
that he unto whole ambitious mind Afia and En- far beyond their expectation ; for he with a mild
rapt-, two great pares of. the World, were too lit­ countenance beholding them, anfwered them?
tle, mould be now carried up and down cooped That he was not come from fb far a Country, orup
in a little Iron Cage, like feme perilous wild .undertaken fb much pains, for the inlargement
Beaft. All which Tamerlane did not fo much of his Dominions, already large enough? ( too
for hatred to the man, as to manifeft the juft bale a thing for him to put himfelf into fb great
judgment of God againft the arrogant Folly of danger and travel for) but rather to win Ho­
the Proud. It is reported, That Tamerlane being nour, and thereby to make his name famous un­
requefted by one or his Noblemen that might be to all Pofterity -for ever; And that therefore it
bold to ipeak unto him, to remit ibme part of his mould well appear unto the World, that he was
Severity againft the perfbn of lb great a Prince » come to aid him, being requefted as his Friend
anfwered, That he did not ufethat Rigor againft and AlUe > and that his upright meaning therein
him as a King, but rather did punifh him as a was the greateft caufe, that God from above had
proud ambitious Tyrant, polluted with the blood beheld his power,, and thereby bruilcd the Head
of his own Brother. •
of the greateft and heroeft Enemy of mankind
Now this fo great an overthrow brought fuch that was under Heaven j and now to get him an
a fear upon all the Countries pollened by Bajaz,et immortal name, would make free fo great and
in Afia, that Axalla lent before by Tamerlane with fiourifhing a City as was Confiantlnople, governed
forty thouland Horfe, and an hundred thouland by fo noble ana. ancient an Houfe as the Em*
Foot, without Carriages, to proiecute the Victory perors > That unto his Courage he had always
came without refiftance to Prufa^ whither all the Faith joyned, fuch as mould never fuller hint
remainder ofSaja&et his Army retired, with the to make fo great a breach in his reputation, as
Majfa Muflapba; the Country as he went ftill that it fhould be reported of him, That in the
yielding unco him. Yea, the great Bajfa with the colour of a Friend he came to invade the Domi­
reft hearing of his coming, and thinking themnions of his Allies; That he defined no more,;buc
ielves not now in any laiety in Afia, fled over that the fervice he had done for the Greek Empe*
the Strait of Hellefpontm to Callipolis, and fo ror, might for ever be ingraven in the Memory of
to Hadrianople » carrying with them out of the his Pofterity, to the end they might for ever
Battel, 8ohmtntBmjaz*t hiseldeft Son, whom, they wifh well unto him and his Succeflbrs, by remem-
Solyman iec up in his Fathers place;: Mahomet his. younger bringthe good he had done them j That long
fit up in Brother prefently upon the overthrow being fled
hit Fathers
might the noble Emperor live, happily to govern
(had. to Amafta j of whom, and the reft of Bajazet his his Efrate; and that before his return he would
Children, more fhall be laid hereafter. Axalla fo well confider for the eftablifhing of the faine,<
coming to Prufa, had the City without refiftance as that he fhould not lightly fall again into the
truhtx- yielded unto him, which he rifled * and there like jeopardy, alwaies alluring himfelf of his
w h with other of Bajazet his Wives and Concubines, good Will and Favour towards him. Eafieitis'
AX«1U. took Prifoner the fair. Delpina, Bajazet his belt to judge what Joy thele Greek Embafladors re­
beloved Wife, to the doubling of his grief. ceived, to hear this fo 'kind an anfiver from the
Emanuel the Greek Emperor now hearing of mouth of Tamerlane himfelf; who rather than
Tamerlane his coming to Prufa, lent his Embafla- he would feem to break his Faith, refuled art
dors (the moft honorable of his Court ) thither Empire offered unto him, with one of the moft
before to Axalla > by whom they were there Irately and magnificent Cities of the World. Few
ftaid until the coming of Tamerlane i who received Princes (I fuppofe), would perform luch a
them with all the Honour that might be, fjiew- part j but fo there be likewife but few Tamerlane*
ing unto them all his magnificence, and the order in the World. Thele Embaffadors by the com-!
of his Camp, to their great admiration; For it mandment of Tamerlane, were by Axalla Royally
refembled a moft populous and-'well governed feafted, and all the Honour done them that
City,for the order that was therein,which brought might be. One of them being lent back to
unto it plenty of all kind of Victuals and other carry thele unexpected news unto the Greek Em*
Merchandife, as well for plealiire as for ufe. By peror, filled both him and all the City of Qw
thefe Embafladors the Greek Emperor fubmitted fiantimple with exceeding joy and gladnels, which
all his Empire, together with his Perlon* unto both he and his Subjects in general ipared not
Tamerlane the great Conqueror, as his moft faith­ with Bonfires and all other figns of Joy and Plea-*
ful Subjeft and Vaflal; which he was bound (as lure to manifeft. And the more to fhew his th.ink-
he laid ) to do, for that, he was by him delivered fulnefs, fhortly after by the advice of iris grave
from the moft cruel Tyrant of the World; as Counfellors, paffed over the ^Strait into Afia, to
alio for that the long journy he had paffed, and fee Tamerlane at Prufa, and in Perfbn himfelf to
the diicornmodities he bad induredj: with the lofs give him thanks; who hearing of his coming,
of his People, and the danger of" his Perfon, could and very glad -thereof, prelentty upon the firtt
not be recompenced buc by the offer of his own days journy ient, the Prince Axalla to meet him*
Life and his Subjects; which he did forever de­ and to cerrine him of the Joy chat, he conceived,
dicate unto his Service, with all the Fidelity and to have the good hap for to lee hjmj, as alio to
Loyalty that fb great a benefit might deferve > conduct, him to Prufa; where? thole two great
befides that, his to many Vermes and rare Ac- Princes, with the greateft magnificence that might
complifhments, which made him famous through be, met, and fo ipent one whole day together*
the World, did bind him fo to do. r Aaff that The Greek Emperor the next day taking his
therefore he would attend him in his chief City leave, was by Tamerlane with much Honour con­
to deliver it into his Hands asjus own, with all ducted ouc of the City. Now had Tamerlane
the Empire of Gremk Now the Greek Embafta- himfelf conceived a fecret: defire to fee this fo
X famous
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154 Ba;azet, Fouctb King of the Turk*.
Timer- & mous a City as was Constantinople^ from whfeh
bne gfl'ftb he was not now far, yet would he not go thither
r# Coo- as a Conqueror, but as a private perfon 5 which
fUnrino- by the means of Axalla was accomplifhed, and
2 lc * he thereinto by the Greek Emperor privately received,
and with all Familiarity poflible entertained
; the Emperor (hewing unto him all the
rare and' excellent things that were therein to
befeern and the other Greek Princes deviling
all the means they could to do him plealure,
and them which did accompanie him; who
B were in a manner all apparelled after the Greek 1
Fafhion. At which time the Greek Emperor himfelf
was curious to fhew unto him all the fair
B Gardens alongft the Sea Coaft, a League or two
from CmftantimpU, and lb privately conducting
him, fbent five or fix days with all the Mirth that
might be poflible; Tamerlane by the way often*
Tamer- times laying.That he had never ieen a fairer City,
Wafastei; which "Tamerlane took in fi> evil parr,
as that he refblved to be thereof revenged; for V
as he was- unto his Friends of all others moft
kind and courteous, lb was he to his Enemies no
lels terrible and dreadful. Yet chinking ir good
pefofe his departure out of the lefler Afui, to
take lbme good order with thele his new Conquefts;
and finding nothing more honourable so
relblve upon, he reftored unco the poor Maho*
metan Princes ( Tachtttm, hfeniiar, Gtrmian, and
the reft before fled onto him for refuge) all
their ancient Inheritance, with Ibmeching more;
as he did alio divers Cities and Countries of Natalia
unto the Greek Emperor, for the yearly
Tribute of four hundred thoufand Ducats of
Gold, and eight hundred thoufand Franks of Silver,
which the Emperor promifed to pay unto
him yearly. And lo having enriched his Army
with the Spoils of the Othoman Empire in AM, .
line mueb and that it was indeed the City ( confidering
deiigbttd ^jje fajr anci r]en Situation thereof) of right,
Z'l'afkrts'of wort hy to he turned his Forces againft the Egyptian Sultan, -
and lb pa fling through Caramania, entred into B
command all the World. He wondred
Syria, then part of the Sultans Kingdom-} where
near unto Aleppo C being before yielded unto
Conftao- At the coftly Buildings of the Temples, the fair
him) was fought betwixt them a great and |* '
riaople. ingraven Pillars, the high Piramides, and the
making of the fair Gardens i and oftentimes afterwards
laid, That he nothing repented him of
his fo long and dangerous a voiage, if it had been
B only but to have preferved from Fire and Sword
ib noble a City as that was. In the Greek Emperor
he commended greatly his mild Nature and
B Courtefie; who knowing him above all things to
take pleafure in fair ferviceable Horfes, gave unto
him Thirty of the faireft, ftrongeft, and readieft,
B that were poflible to be gotten, all molt richly
furnifhed; and lent like wife fair Prefents unto
all the Princes and great Commanders of the
B Army,' and bountifully cauled to be delivered
onto them all things which he thought to be neceflary
for the Army. So after many great
kindneffes in fhort time palled, and a ftrait bond
of Friendship made, and by iblemn Oath confirmed
betwixt the two great Princes, Tamerlane
with great contentment took his leave of the
B Emperor, and returned again to his Army at
Truja. Wherewith he now at his plealure without
refiftance wafted and fpoyled all Bajazet his
R Dominion in A fa, no man daring to make head
againft him..
The year being now well foent, and Winter
fl drawing on, Tamerlane difperled his Army imp
divers of the Provinces of the lefler A/u, expecting
ftill when lbme of Bafa&et his Sons or other
B Friends mould make liiit or- means unto hinffon
his deliverance,-but none came* lbme fearing
Tamerlane his heavy indignation, and others no
lels dreading• the fierce Nature of Bajaz,et himlelfj
who if he had been delivered, was,; like
enough fas was thought J to have taken (hard
revenge-upon all them which forlbok him in the
late Battel > and therefore never made intercew
lion for Mm, Whereupon Tamerlane one day
palling by him, laid unto him,-! marvel that none
of thy Sons or Friends either come to 'lee thee,.
or to intteat for thee, it mult -needs be that thou
haft evilly deferred of them,as thou haft of others -j|
B yet how thinkeft thou, if I fhoulcl let thee at
liberty, would they again receive thee as their
Lord and Sovereign, or not i To whom Bajazet
boldly anlwered; Were I at liberty, thou ihouldffi
well lee, how that I wane neither Courage nor
means to revenge all my Wrongs and to make
B thole difbbedient and forgetful to know their
Duties better. Which his proud anlwer, made
Tamerlane to keep a ftraighter hand over him.
B In this great and bloody War, wherein die
Othoman Empire had-almoft taken end, the-SuItan]
of Egypt had (as is aforelaid -) given aid unto
r '**
mortal Battel, the Sultan having in his Army c* ke ytm
an hundred thoufand Foot, and ieventy four twist the
thoufand Horle; Whereof there were thirty sidta of
thoufend l accounted the beft Horle* ^j*'* 4
men In the World. In which Battel Axalls the iaJ,
great Captain, with the Vantgiiard of Tamerlane
his Army, was hardly diftreffed, and Axalla
himfelf taken; fast forthwith again refcued by
Tamerlane', '• who had he not by his coming on
with new Forces, (peedily reftored the Battel,
cunningly protracted by Axalla, that day was like
enough to have made an end of his good Fortune.
But the Victory after a long and cruel '
Fight (Wherein were fourfcore thoufand men oil •
both fides flain) inclining to Tamerlane, the Sultan
fled, Tamerlane purfuing him by the lpace of
three Leagues* After Which Victory, Tamerlane
dividing his Army, &nt Axalla with forty thoufand
Horle and fifty thoufand Foot to purlue
the Sultan alongft the Coaft of Arabia; who
oftentimes mewed himfelf with lbme four thouland
Horle to have hindred Axalla, who having
the fmalleft Forces, followed him the neareft.
Tamerlane himfelf in the mean rime, with three*
lcore thoufand Horle, and an hundred thoufand
Foot, marching alongft the Sea Coaft> had all -
the Cities as he went yielded unto him» as Magats,
Aman, otherwife called Apamea-, Tpmfir,
Barruto, and Jtfephthalm-, only the ftrong City of B
Damafco refilled to receive him, whereinto the
Sultan had put the Prince ZamaJ&en, with -a Dtmtfca
ftrong GarrSon, who did what he might to have ""J^L
defended the lame; But all in vain, tor Tamer- \aa/Ct "
lone having by Battery overthrown a great part
of the Wall, by Aflaultwon the City, only the
CafHe yet remaining, as being of a wondeful
Strength,' and almoft impregnable; whercinto
luch a multitude had at the taking of the City
retired themfelves, as was not poflible therein
long to live; who in fliorc time pinched with
Hunger, and many of them dead, the reft upon
lafeguard of their lives offered to yield i whom
for all that Tamerlane would not receive to mercy,
to make them feel what it was to hold out againft
him ; ib that moft of them dying of Famine, the
reftyielded without Gondition,and were for their
Oblhnacy almoft all flain. Which his Severity
towards them of Damafet, cauled, that thirty
Leagues off they brought the Keys of their Cities
unto 'him, in token of their SubrnifEon» whom
he no way molefted, -more than in contributing B
unto the charge of his Army. From Pamafeo,
he turned directly towards Jerufalentj at which
rime

Tamer*
lane
« "? «b f •
Jerufalera
Damiara
tattn by
AxaUa.
Ta r-
lanc marA
rfc/ faraenc of die Sultan, who made provifion lor the
tnrds defence of Alexandria, as the neareft onto danger.
Cafer.
Bajazct, Fourth King of the Tu&ks. »55
time they of the City lad driven out the Sul­ But underftanding of theie news, uled fiich ditans
Gairi&n, as had almoftaU they of Judea, ligence, that he entred into the City with forty
lubmiccing themfelves unto Tamerlane, At Cbo~ thouland Horfe, and chreefcore thouland Footj
ra- the Sultan had left fix thoafirtd men to Gar- even as Tamerlane his Army approached, purrifoii
for the defence of the place, who at the poling in Perfbn himfelf to defend it. By whole
firft feemed to ltand upon their Guard > but coming the great City ready before to have
afterwards dilmaied to fee fo great an Army be­ revolted, was again in his obedience confirmed,
fore -it, and chat Tamerlane having approached the to 4>he great hindrance of Tamerlane his Affairs;
Walk, was let down to have it, they lubmitted for to remain long before it, was impoffible,
themfelves and found mercy. In which City for want Of Victuals for fo great an Army in
Tamerlane left certain of his men in Garfilbn, the tnemies Country. Yet notwithstanding all .
for the better repreflmg of the Mamalukes, who this, aid not Tamerlane forbear to draw near unco g"^ /'*
with often incurfions troubled his Army. So it, and with all his Army to encamp- near unto Timer,
marching on, he himfelf with certain Horfemen the lame, having eaufed a great Trench to be lane,
for his Guard, rode to Jerufalem to vifit the made for to cover his Horlemen, and thereby to
Sepulchre fo much reverenced of all Nations, and lodge his Army more lately; during which time
there to make his Oblations s where* he was of he eaufed divers onfets to be given, as well to
the Inhabitants joyfully received, and having try what confidence the Enemy had in liimfelf,
fought out all the Antiquities of the ancient City, as to fee how the People of the City, special­
would be conducted unco all the places therely the Slaves (which in that populous City are
abouts, where Jefus Chrift had preached, even infinite ) were affected towards him j who cer­
as the Pilgrims do ; and coming to the Sepultainly informed him of the ftace of the City,
chre, gave thereunto, and the devout there, ma­ and the Army; as glad to fee the lame by him
ny rich and precious Gifts, to the great GOnJ&nt- mut up, and fhe proud Mamalukes frill put to the
ment of all men (to fee him honour theft ho­ worft. But thus lying ftillat the Siege, one day he
ly places ) but of the Jews only, who greatly thought it good to mew his Army before the
blamed him for fo doing ; of whom of all City, to try whether the Enemy had adefireto*
others, Tamerlane made no reckoning, but cal­ come to a day of Battel or not; as alio to view
led them the accurfed of God. There had he what Forces he -hack and fo indeed to-feek oe* .
news that die Sultan had gathered all his Forces, caftan to fight, in hope alio, that-if
and being come into Egypt, was there fortifying
of his Cities, especially the great Cities of Alexen
and Cater. Tamerlane his Army in the
mean time by his commandment came towards
Egypt to hamiata i which ftrong City he thought
not good to leave behind him, although he was
by fome perlwaded fo to do, for that it was
thought impregnable, as well in relpect of the
Cattle, as of the ftrong Garrifon that the Sultan
had put thereinto; but be,whole Fortune nothing
could hinder, would needs go thither > and io
having commanded AxaUa to let upon it, followed
himfelf after with the reft of his Army.
Now AxaUa having fummoned the City, and declared
unco the Inhabitants ( who were moft of
them Chriftians) the mildnelsand courcefie of
Tamerlane, as alio who himfelf was, and what
Religion he held; caufing many of the' Greek
Captains to lpeak unto them, and to tell them
of the mifery they indured under the Moors and
Mamalukes; lb far prevailed with them, chat
they all determined' to adventure their Lives,
to put the Mamalukes out of the City, with all
them that favoured the Sultan. And fo in the
night taking up Anns, made themfelves Mafters
of one quarter of the City, and delivered one
of the Gates to AxaUa; whereby he entring put
all the Mamalukes to the Sword, or took them
Prilbners, and fo gained the City. Whereof
Tamerlane hearing, being as yet upon his march,
was in good hope of lb proiperous a beginning,
to find an happy end alio of his Defigns in
Egypt. For hemes the good Fortune thereof, he
knew that this Haven of Damiata might ferae Jiim
with Victuals out of all the parts of Greece; as I
the Emperor Emanuel had promifed Mm, and
wherein: he nothing failed him* 'Into which Port
Tamerlane having made his entrie, left there in
Garrifcn two thouland of the Emperor Emanuel
bis Souldiers, with* a/ Governor, of whom
he took an Oath for theur Obedience. So having
itaied a lpace at Damiata, he eaufed his Vauntguard
to march towards Alexandria; and having
polled over chc River, even man inftanc turned
directly unto Cam, to the great h-
: the Sultan?
did come forth with all his Army into the Field/
feme revolt might happen witliiri the City, as
well by the Slaves-( unto whom liberty was by 1
him promifed) as-by the Citizens theroielves ;
Cdilcontented with the infblency of the Mamalukes
entred of late into the City with the Sultan)"
unco whom he had made it known by certain
Slaves (for that purpofe fled as Fugitives out of
his Army into the City) how that he- was noe
come to hurt them, but only for the deftruction
of the Mamalukes, both his and their Enemies.-
But betimes Handing fa in Battel array, no man
eame forth, neither was there any tumult or fh'r
railed in theCicy,as he had expected. For the Sultan
in fo great a-City well provided of all things,
was relblved to weary him out with lying Ml,'
and not to put all to the hazard of a Battel.-
Which" Tamerlane perceiving, and fee down not
co depart from -thence, buc victorious, relblvedlikewifeto
force hhsneVen in his greatelt Strength,
in the Heart of his greatelt City-; although ic
were* not to be done, hut with great adventure >
luch confidence he had in the Strength and Multitude
of his Army; r

iBajazet, Fourth
Kwgoftbe Turks.
fent by the Sultan to have ftopt his further paf- the Avantgard, for to hinder the .Sultan for
fage; the Prince of Thanais being at that fame joyning his Forces again together;, and the
time almoft beaten back by the Mamalukes. But reft of his Army conduded by the Prince
the way being made plain, by them that were of Tbanais; he himfelf with an infinite nam?
for that purpole left by Axalla, and ten thouland) ber of Boats and Souldiers to attend upon
Horfe entred, which charged upon the Backs of him, going by Water, taking great pleauira
the Mamalukes, where the Sultan himfelf was; to behold the fair River, and his fwift courfe
and they feconded by ten thousand more lent in fometimes, : and in an inftant to become fo
by Tamerlane, following himfelf after, with all calm as if it fcarce moved. The Citizens of
his Power; the Sultan retired unto a lecond Alexandria hearing of his coming, and fear* I
Strength, which he had made in the next City. ing what might betide them, befought the Sul­
The Fight indured full the fpace of feven hours; tan to have companion of their Eftate t and
wherein were flainof the Sultan his men above to withdraw himfelf into Ljbia, whither To-
iixteen thoufand; and of "Tamerlane* betwixt femerlon* for the Barrennefs of the- Country
ven and eight thouland. Who contented to have could not with any great Power follow him,
diflodgedthe Enemy, and gained a third part of refolved for their parts to give place unto For­
the City, caufed a Retreat to be lbunded,in hope tune, and to do as the time required, and no
the next day to win all the reft, as indeed he did. more to refill fo great a force, whereof they
for the Prince of Thanais the next day forcing had already made fuffioient trial \ promifing
the Enemies Trenches in one place, and Axalla yet to remain in Heart ftill his, and upon
in another, the Sultan after a great Fight finding the firft occafiorf offered, to make the fame
himfelf hardly preffed by the obftinate Enemy, to
him appear. Whereupon the Sultan feeing 7blSuJ
and too weak long to hold out, retired, and lb all things- deiperate, determined for a time fuab fa%
forthwith abandoned the City, and encamped to retire, in hope, that time would bring fome lexan-
himfelf along the fide of the River Nihs, with change ; as alio that Tamerlane his populous the rather thereunto moved by the '! tu *'..
requeft of his Wife, then longing for his return s "lutn*
and the News he heard of the Sicknefs of the
old Tartarian Emperor bis Farher-in-Law i bcfides
that, Age it felf began to bring unto him
a defire of reft; with, whom alio, the defires of
his Souldiers well agreed, as men now Weary co
have run fo many and divers Fortunes. The
only ftay was, that he expe&ed the coming
of Calibes, an old and faithful Servant of hia,
whom he for his good defert had of hfe own accord
appointed Governor of all his new Conquefts
in Egypt and Syria* a great Honour no
doubt, but not too great for him that had fo
well deferved. So mindtul was he of the good
deferts of his faithful Servants, as that he needed
not by others to be of them put in remembrance.

lit mife*
ribledtctb
of Baja-
Zee
Ba;az&, Fonhh King of tb&Trmks.
brance, were they never fb far off, as was now
Calibes, 'who at this tfnle-was with the third part
of his Army making, way for him along the
great River Euphrates, for the Conqueft of Mifofotamia,
arid Per/is; whole coming was now
with greai devotion looked for of the whole
Army, defirousto return. Which their expectation
he long delated not, but being lent for, came
to Alexandria, whither the whole Army was now
by the commandment of Tamerlane again a£
iembled. Upon whole coming, Tamerlane departed
from Alexandria, having there left the
Prince -Z-atn^Man (a man of great reputation J
with-fix thoirfand Horlefnen and ten thouland
Foot, as Governor of that place, and lieute­
nant General under Calibes; whom Tamerlane
(as I have laid) had now appointed to command
over all Egypt and Syria, together with
the Countries newly conquered* in Lybia and
&arb*ry\ and now conducing him unto the
great City of Caire, and there taking the belt
order he could; for the prefervation of his new
. Conqueft, left turn with forty thouland Horle
and fifty thouland Foot. And ib having luf-
•*fy
an Ague, proceeding'of Sorrow- and 'Grief;
others, that he poifonedWmfelf; -and the Turffe
affirming, that he was-fit at Liberty by ^Tamerhnej
being by him before-hand/poiloiiedwhereof
he dyed three days after he was injarged
( a Report not like to be true : ) but
howfoever it was, his end appeareth to Have
been nght miferable. His dead Body at the
requeft of his Soil Mahomet, wisbyTamerlmie'
lent co Affrafrtis, from whence it was afterwards
cotiveighed to Prufa,- and there lieth.
Dunea in a Chappel near unto the great Mahometan
Temple without the City Eaftwardwhere
alfo lieth his beloved Wife DtAm*\
With lus eldeft Son Erthrogul. And fair by .
m a uttle Chappel lieth buried his Brother Jamurth
f he "* the be S i lin g °f his Reign
Thefe two great and mighty Princes, To- 1
nurlane and Bajazet s ( both of them whilft i£K
f*l %*>u I burthen to the World) as they & £ .
jooic their beginning from the Scythes or Tartars, )«« «
Now had Bajazet (but a little before one and yet never bellowing his Preferments on
of the greateft Princes on Earth, and now the iiich as ambitioufly ibught the lame ( as deeming
icorn of Fortune, and a By-word to the World) them in fo doing unworthy thereof.) but upon liich
with great Impatience lain two years in moft as whole Modelty or Defert he thought wor­
milerable Thraldom, for moft part flint up in thy thole his great Favours; fb tempering
an Iron Cage, as lome dangerous Wild Beafti the Severity of his Commands with the Great-
and-leaving no better means to end his loathnefi of his Bounty, as that it is hard to £ty,
ed Life, did violently beat out his Brains whither he was of his Nobility and Men of
againft the Bars of the Iron Grate wherein he War, for the one more feared, or for the other
was incloied, and ib died - about die year of beloved; both, the great Staies of Princes
our Lord 1J99* Yet of his Death are divers States; Fear keeping the Obftirfate in Obedi­
Other Reports; fome laying, that he died of ence j and Love, the Dutiful in Devotion. But
with